DLF Home Developers,
has been asked by New Delhi district consumer forum here to pay Rs. 10 lakh to
one of its allottees for refusing to refund the booking amount for a flat
(Apartment) in a project which did not have legal sanction for execution.
The forum also
restrained DLF Home Developers from “launching or / advertising” any project without putting up
on its website or in its advertisement information about the legal sanction
& approvals etc for the project and
the details of authorities from whom buyers can verify the same.
The New Delhi
District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum also slammed the India's leading
real estate developer, saying it “forced litigation” on its allottee, Gurgaon
resident Arpan Jain, by “retaining his money illegally.”
The forum said unless
DLF Home Developers is “deprived of its gains made on the basis of unfair trade
practices and its greed is checked effectively, it would continue undeterred.
We, holding opposite party guilty of committing gross illegality & unfair trade
practices & rendering deficient services, determine damages for harassment
& litigation at Rs. 5 lakh to be paid to the complainant Mr. Jain”
The bench presided by
Mr. C. K. Chaturvedi also directed DLF Home Developers “to return the deposit of Rs. 5 lakh with
interest of 18% from the date of seeking refund.”
The forum’s
directions came on Mr. Jain’s complaint in which he had alleged that DLF Home
Developers had refused to refund the booking amount of Rs. 5 lakh he had paid
for a flat in its project “Express Greens” at Manesar in Haryana.
