India, Nov. 14 -- A retired Army officer and war veteran, General Ashok Mehta, has written to the Chief Executive Officer of the Noida Authority, Lokesh, seeking urgent intervention after a major portion of the ceiling in his flat collapsed last September. The incident took place in Ram Vihar Society (RVS), Sector 30, Noida - an AWHO (Army Welfare Housing Organisation) complex where the 88-year-old officer and his wife were living since 1995.

In his letter dated October 27, 2025, addressed to the CEO of Noida Authority, Sector 6, General Mehta described the collapse of the ceiling as the culmination of "repeated patchy and perfunctory repair work done by the society." The damage, he wrote, stemmed from recurrent leakage and seepage from ...