Mumbai: Builder to pay Rs 1.2 crore for not assuring flat delivery

MUMBAI: The National Consumer Commission has ordered a builder to pay Rs 1.2 crore to a purchaser with 12% interest since 2013 for delaying handing over of a redevelopment project flat in Andheri for over seven years. He could also not give a “definite date of completion” of the project.
The commission observed that the building was ready only till the 17th floor and the builder could not give a date by when he would complete the construction of the 24th floor flat allotted to Prakash Tiwari, an original tenant in two rooms of an Oshiwara village building that was taken up for redevelopment. Tiwari moved the National Consumer Redressal Disputes Commission against Monarch & Qureshi Builders in 2016 seeking possession of the flat and two parking spaces.
An initial dispute between Tiwari and the builder was settled mutually before Bombay high court in 2010. In 2011, Tiwari was allotted a 900 sq ft flat on the 24th floor of ‘Evershine Cosmic’. He said he had paid more than Rs 5 lakh to the developer for all the common amenities and facilities.