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Ramesh Agrawal ( LL.B. & CA) Police have registered cases  cheating against 27 Builders of Thane, Maharashtra for allegedly forging documents for the registration of their projects with Real Estate Regulatory Authority (RERA). Police officials told that accused have allegedly cheated home buyers from 27 Villages & Kalyan Dombivli Municipal Corporation (KDMC) as a part of racket. The accused forged the documents to show that the proper permission was taken from Kalyan Dombivli Municipal Corporation for the construction of house & based on that they got the RERA Registration. The developers were involved in fraud from 2017 to 2022 & each  homebuyer paid somewhere around Rs. 25 lakhs to 35 lakhs for a home. A case has been registered for the above case, but no arrest has been made so far. 

CA Ramesh Agrawal The Real Estate Regulation & Development Act, 2016 (RERA) was passed in the Parliament in March 2016 & it came into effect from 1 st May 2016. In May 2022, RERA completed 6 Years. RERA law, various decisions of Hon. Supreme Court and other judicial forums like NCDRC, NCLT has substantially empowered the India’s Homebuyers. Modi govt realised that the homebuyers were being cheated by many builders and these builders need to be brought to justice thus brought such laws. Initial few years after implementation of RERA was spent getting the legal structure in place. Currently Regulatory Authorities & Appellate Tribunals have started taking stringent action in many cases if not in all cases. In many of the cases, remarkable decisions have been taken by the RERA Authorities. Many homebuyers have got justice through RERA and other courts. In a case of Gurugram, RERA issued arrest warrants against the directors of a Real Estate Company and in another case, it dire...

                                                           CA Ramesh Agrawal The Delhi Police’s Economic Offences Wing (EOW) has arrested a Builder who has cheated 31 persons of more than 10 Crores for booking of flats & shops at a real estate project in Haryana’s Rewari. Deepak Gusain, a resident of Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh is the accused who has been absconding for a  long time & look out notice was issued for him. As per the officials, Pankaj Gusain advertised for booking of flats & shops in real estate project in Rewari for his company named “Asian Developers Private Limited” in 2012. Buyers made bookings & regular payments were made by them, but the construction was stopped by builder in April 2014. The facts were misrepresented by the Builder before the public at large which induced them to invest in the ...

                                                              CA Ramesh Agrawal Haryana Real Estate Regulatory Authority (HRERA) have ordered 17 Builders, to refund Rs. 50 Crores to the homebuyers of various construction projects for non-delivering the projects well on time. HRERA has issued multiple orders for 17 Builders directing them to refund the home buyers their hard-earned money along with 9.70% Interest within 90 days. Refund orders have been passed after listening to both the parties i.e., Homebuyers & Builders & on finding out that builders were guilty. Approx 300 matters were listed before the authority for adjudication in July. In 63 Cases, The Authority ordered refunds with interest @ 9.70%. These Adjudications are related to 17 Builders & refund is approx 50 crores. Raheja Developers alone has to refun...

  CA Ramesh Agrawal RERA registration of 3 real estate projects have been cancelled by Uttar Pradesh Real Estate Regulatory Authority (UP-RERA). As per the officials’ statements, the promoters of Raksha Vigyan Sanskriti Phase-2, Antriksh Sanskriti Phase-2 and Antriksh Sanskriti Phase-3 have violated provision of the RERA law. These builders have not followed order issued by Authority & project was not completed risking the investments of the allotees. In the allotees mostly are present & former government employees. As per RERA officials, many complaints were received regarding these projects. Authority conducted a site inspection of these projects & they found out that chances of completing the projects is uncertain. Construction & Development work for these 3 projects was started in 2015 was schedules to be finished by July 22 & June 23 respectively. ‘Project Advisory and Monitoring Committee’ has been constituted under Mrs Kalpana Mishra, member of the author...

  CA Ramesh Agrawal The Builder will have to refund the amount with interest to Homebuyer if possession of the flat is not given on time. Jaypee Builder has been ordered by The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) to refund the money along with interest for non-delivery of the booked flats in the Cove Greater Noida Project located at Jaypee Sports Green City in Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority Area. This action was taken on the complaints of Jaypee Cove Buyers Association filed by 71 home buyers. NCDRC has ordered the builder Jaiprakash Associates Limited to return the entire amount deposited by homebuyer within 6 Weeks with simple interest @ 9%. Apart from interest the builder will have to give Rs. 50,000 to each of the complainants home buyers. These flats were booked in 2011-2012 & almost 90-95 percent amount was paid by homebuyers to builder. The specified period for handing over the possession of flats was 42 Months. The Homebuyer assoc...

CA Ramesh Agrawal In Uttar Pradesh’s Noida, over 50 Farmhouses which were illegally developed along the Yamuna floodplains were razed down during an anti-encroachment drive. As per Noida Authority the area of demolished properties is 1.45 Lacs Sq. Mtr. & having value of approx Rs. 55 Crores. According to officials any type of construction is prohibited in (Yamuna) Floodplains areas of Noida. Noida Authority’s Officer on Special Duty (Land) said that besides Gulawali, illegal farmhouses and constructions in Tilwada Village were also demolished during the operation. Altogether 55 Farmhouses & some illegal constructions were razed during the anti-encroachment drive. For the entire process, about 150 Employees of Noida Authority including senior officials were present on the site along with Police & PAC personnel. As per officials 9 JCB & 8 Dumpers were involved in the process. Moreover, the officials said that the Noida Authority will take up action & legal action will...