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Gateway ministries international
Fraud dealings

Charity Commissioner

83 Anni Basant Road,

Worli Naka, Worli, Mumbai.

Sub: Follow up regarding complaint (copy attached)

Dear Sir,

The following complaint regarding Bombay Baptist church and Stanley Mehta, Senior Pastor (Mob 9820531172) was lodged on August 1988, however I have not yet received any proper solution for the same.

1. Church have more than 3600 members with regular monthly contribution as per the records published by church and copy submitted at your office (Inspector 10)

2. As per your preliminary enquiry only 22 members were found recorded in membership registry.

3. In order to divert funds as well as to avoid memberships and elections few people have registered another trust with a fictious name Gate way ministries International without showing it is a church

4. A church is registered with this fictious name Gate way ministries International is yet another idea to cheat cidco and get a property allotted at 3 floor of CBD Station Complex Navi Mumbai. Cidco generally don’t allot places for worship to churches etc without certain formalities. Hence they registered a trust which doesn’t indicate it to be church and got this property allotted.

5. All churches as per the copy of church website printouts (attached) are currently operating under one account /any other bank accounts (if exists is not known to me). And have no separate membership registers as on now.

6. Foreign funds and other collections are diverted through another trust called Sahara charitable society. (All these societies have almost same people office bearers)

7. All 22 members in present registry is nominated by Stanley Mehta and elections to choose office bearers have no meaning as it don’t involve general members. Pls check up church record, hardly any pastors were in office more than 2-3 years for better transparency. Present Pastor Stanley is in the job since 1983, this unusual long stay itself is the clear proof of manipulation in membership.

8. I myself was handpicked to be one of the committee members but resigned in 1991 in protest of all these malpractices.

9. Your good office is requested to investigate the matter thoroughly, ensure proper membership registers are maintained, proper elections are conducted and existing office bearers are replaced (who have no moral power to continue as it is manipulated through Stanley Mehta). I do not know what should be called to a person who talk about God from public platform and cheating own members like this by even not registering esteemed members in official records.

10. Earlier records show that people who joined this church were issued with a Baptism certificate; off recently this is also not done so that if any donating member makes a complaint, they will turn around and say they don’t recognise the complainant.

11. Efforts are on to decentralise the satellite units (as attached printout of website shows). This is to avoid present books of account which is kept hidden from members. They provide audited accounts to your office but as an insider I personally can prove that they are not a very clear picture in terms of procedures and practices as applicable in handling public funds. I have requested it to be shown to me but Stanley Mehta denies it to be shown to me as he fears I may pick up some worms and report to Charity Commissioner. Also your good selves will agree with me that audited sheets alone are difficult to pinpoint internal malpractices until unless some insider leaks out secrets. Recent audited sheets of Satyam by an internationally accredited Auditor PWC are an example of this truth. Kindly don’t permit any move of Stanley Mehta to register all other units separately till the central funds are checked and verified by a properly elected committee and I as a special member being the complainant. I have been paying to this trust from 1983 till to date by cash and check. My resignation in 1991 was in protest of such malpractices and Stanley conveniently kept quiet without any hearing on the matter. Subsequently struck of my wife’s name also from church trust membership for which we had no known acknowledged intimation. This was intimated to her when she complained, why MOM of business meetings were not being send to her.

In case if powers to ensure above privileges to a member are beyond judicial powers of your good office kindly advice so that we can adopt other legal procedures if available to ensure rights of paying members of a trust or church. Currently church is in process of provoking me to do something wrong against law by keeping silent and showing the signs of excommunication by removing me from the list of Preaching in church since last year.

Thanking you

Your Faith Fully

CK Sasidharan Nair

F 104 Neel Sidhi Splendor,

Sector 15, CBD, Belapur

Navi Mumbai-400614

CC: Stanley Mehta: Actions mentioned above are minimum courtesy to be extended to any member especially to church members. It would be better if these points are actioned so that Office of charity commissioner office need not be overburdened like this.


Company: Gateway ministries international

Country: India

Category: Miscellaneous

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