Consumer Court
Around 900 flat-owners of Indra Puram Colony on the outskirts of Jalandhar are facing a tragical irony as even after paying the last installment before three years, they cannot move into the flats as basic amenities such as electricity, water and sewerage connections are missing. The flat owners paid the full amount to the Jalandhar [...] Continue Reading »
Any buyer of any apartment in India can sue the builder of the apartment for any king of construction defect under the Consumer protection Act. The Supreme Court has said a private developer selling a flat to a consumer can be defined as a service and thus falls under the Act. New flat owners will [...] Continue Reading »
The Bangalore Urban District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum has ordered the SJR builder to pay compensation to a petitioner for not handing over an apartment in Bangalore on time. The complainant had booked an apartment at SJR Luxuria with SJR Enterprises situated in Arakere, Bangalore. As on April 26, 2011, the petitioner had paid Rs [...] Continue Reading »
The consumer forum has ordered TDI Infrastructure Pvt Ltd, a real estate firm to refund Rs 11.31 lakh to a customer for its failure to give him the possession of a shop in the desired time limit. Moreover, the booking amount was collected without having an agreement and it is considered as unfair trade practice [...] Continue Reading »
A consumer forum in Faridabad has ordered the Real estate developer Triveni Infrastructure to refund Rs 6 lakh to one of its customers. The customer had booked a flat in a township project at Faridabad. even after four years of the booking, the customer is still waiting for the possession. The forum has found the [...] Continue Reading »
The District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum asked the Unitech developer to pay Rs 6.6 lakh to a home buyer who booked a flat. The customer wanted to cancel the booking after several hike in the rate of the flat. Earlier the customer booked the flat in Greater Noida at a rate of Rs 3200 per [...] Continue Reading »
It is no strange news when we hear a builder promising something and not providing it afterwards! To teach a lesson to these type of builders, residents of Bangalore took ahead a step and made them pay. Builders Sumadhura Constructions, whose Sumadhura Shangrilla Apartments at Mahadevapura had 84 owners, paid 100% amount on water connection. [...] Continue Reading »
Good news to all the flat buyers in Mumbai! You need not pay extra for parking. Same orders were passed on by the consumer court. According to the rules, parking is to be provided as one of the basic amenities. Under the Maharashtra Ownership Flats Act (MOFA) this rule was considered. Source: The Times [...] Continue Reading »
The district consumer forum orders Nitishree Infrastructure to refund the deposit with 15 per cent annual interest.The forum has also imposed a penalty of Rs 25,000 on the builder for mental harassment and legal costs. Charanjit Lal a native of Amritsar had booked a plot in the project named Shauryapuram launched by Nitishree Infrastructure in [...] Continue Reading »
Under the present laws, the contracts are unilateral and there is no protection against unfair contracts. Often, service providers want consumers to sign on the dotted line even if the terms and conditions are stiff and give little leeway to consumers. The government is set to revamp the Consumer Protection Act, 1986 to provide for [...] Continue Reading »
