Unfair Trade Practice: Unitech Ltd Guilty, to Pay Rs. 6.60 lakh

India's leading real estate company Unitech Ltd has been held guilty of resorting to "Unfair Trade  Practice" by a consumer forum Greater Noida  and directed to pay a customer Rs. 6.60 lakh for making "Illegal Demands" from him after he booked a flat with Unitech and paid the booking amount.

The District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum, in its order, observed that the Unitech and its agent made "Unjustified" demands from the customer & also threatened to forfeit his deposited money.

Compensation  Rs. 1 lakh ..!

The action of the Unitech its agent in raising the illegal demands from time to time and then refusing to refund the booking amount is clearly unjustified and amounts to unfair trade practice by them.

District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum said, "Accordingly we direct the Unitec Ltd & its agents jointly and many time to refund to the complainant the sum of Rs. 5.50 lakhs along with a compensation of Rs. 1 lakh for physical & mental agony suffered and Rs .10,000 as the litigation cost".

Unitech Verve..!

The bench presided by Mr. Rakesh Kapoor passed the order on a plea by Rohini resident Amrit Lal Chawla who said he had booked a flat for Rs. 5.5 lakh in a residential project, Unitech Verve at  launched by the Unitec Ltd

Amrit Lal Chawla alleged the firm  sent letters arbitrarily increasing the rate of the flat from the initially agreed upon rate under the contract and when he cancelled the booking and asked for refund of his deposited amount from the company, it threatened to forfeit the same.

The District Consumer Disputes Redressal forum observed that Unitech "failed to show as to how they had raised demands at higher rate than what was agreed upon" as it chose not to contest the complaint despite a notice.

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