Kalpit Mankikar | TNN | Feb 2, 2015, 04.44 AM IST MUMBAI: In many old societies, senior citizens owned flats but would not show interest, and associate members were barred from participating in managing committee proceedings. Section 2 (19) of the Maharashtra Cooperative Societies Act says an associate member jointly holds a share of the…
In their order dt. 7 October 2016, The NCDRC has passed a detailed order interpreting Section 12(1)(C) of the Consumer Protection Act, allowing home buyers who have invested in a project to be automatically made party to any case filed against a builder. Referred to as a representative lawsuit, this can only be done…
Builder constructs illegal flat on car parking area and sells it The Maharashtra State Consumer Commission has ordered Shreekrishna Developers – a builder to pay to a buyer – the complainant Rs 26 lakh, the 2012 (year of filing the complaint) value of a 525 sq feet flat in the vicinity. The buyer who…
A large number of cases are coming up in various Consumer Fora against the builders. They tend to take matters very lightly and tend to disobey them….. I am reproducing an order of the State Commission, Maharashtra. The concerned builder was sent to jail for three years, unless he complies with the order before…
The Consumer Forums are taking a much needed tough stand against erring builders who think they are above the law and are resorting to all kinds of unfair and illegal practices… Swati Deshpande| TNN | Updated: Sep 23, 2016, 08.08 AM IST MUMBAI: The Maharashtra State Consumer Commission has come to the…
One Avigna Park, the first cluster development project in Mumbai……….in serious trouble…………….. Mumbai: FIR against builder for FSI fraud that cost govt Rs 2,000 cr Cops registered FIR against directors of the firm that constructed the 61-storey super luxury project — One Avighna Park at Currey Road — for allegedly forging… MID-DAY.COM Read the entire…
MOFA Act, 1963 is a powerful Act with stringent provisions against erring builders. The various provisions contain imprisonment of 3 years, and fine, etc. In certain circumstances involving breach of trust, the sentence of imprisonment can go upto five years.. The offences are both cognizable as well as non bailable. For the first…
Hindustan Times – Four held for attacking doctor with swords HT Correspondent | Updated: Jun 28, 2016 12:07 IST MUMBAI: Officials of the crime branch unit 4 have arrested four people on Monday for assaulting a Parel-based 43-year-old doctor at the behest of a local builder. According to police officials, six people assaulted Dr Naveen…
Criminal Cases under MOFA Very few criminal cases are filed against builders and land owners under the Provisions of MOFA (Maharashtra Ownership Flats (Regulation of the promotion of construction, sale, management and transfer) Act, 1963) and other sections of the IPC. I do not know the exact reasons. Most flat owners, and even lawyers,…
Christmas eve has brought bad news for Gundecha Builders….one of the top builders of Mumbai. On 23rd December 2015, Justice Mridula Bhatkar of the Bombay High Court settled a 36-year-old litigation initiated by one Shivram Shinde (since deceases) who claimed he was in “adverse possession” of the land since 1944. Gundecha Builders joined the litigation later, saying it had…
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