New Delhi: Responding to the allegation by Union Minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, that the flat allocated to him by Parsvnath developers was uninhabitable, the Supreme Court, on Wednesday, constituted a two-member committee of lawyers to inspect the facility.
The Supreme Court earlier last month, directed the property developer to hand over possession of a flat in its Exotica project in Gurgaon, to the Union Minister.
Rathore had booked a flat in Parsvnath's Exotica project in Gurgaon in 2006 and paid around Rs 70 lakh for it. The firm was to deliver the flat in 2008-09. In January this year, the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) had directed the builder to refund the principal amount with interest and compensation to Rathore.
During the hearing of Rathore’s case, counsel appearing for the builder said the flat was ready and they could handover possession.
Earlier this year in May, the firm was asked by the apex consumer commission to refund the principal amount in four weeks with 12 per cent interest, Rs 3 lakh as compensation and Rs 25,000 as litigation cost to 70 buyers who had booked flats in the Parsvnath Exotica project, Ghaziabad.
The builder later submitted that they were in ‘serious financial difficulty’ as they had suffered a loss of around Rs 400 crore last year.
They had also said they would hand over possession of the flats in its delayed project at Ghaziabad within a year.
