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Lavasa Corporation Ltd. Hicon ...

vs Girish Vassan Panjwani And Others on 7


August, 2018

84. Thus, having regard to the totality of the facts and circumstances and the terms and conditions of
the 'Agreements', having regard to the entire purport and object of the Act, it has to be held that, the
dispute in the present case definitely falls within the jurisdiction of RERA. The interplay of all the
provisions contained in the Act, coupled with the real purport of the 'Agreement of Lease', leads to no
other inference, but to Lavasa.doc hold that, the complaints filed by the Respondents before the
'Adjudicating Officer', under Section 18 of the Act, are definitely maintainable and the 'Adjudicating
Officer' is having the jurisdiction to entertain and decide those complaints. The mechanical
interpretation given by the 'Adjudicating Officer' to the provisions of the Act, merely focusing on the
nomenclature of the 'Agreement', was clearly defeating the object of the Act and hence, it was rightly
set aside by the Appellate Tribunal.

(vi) In Civil Appeal No.9139 of 2019, we were informed by the learned counsel that the Respondent
had made a request for refund of the amount deposited since his wife was critical and required a lung
transplant, to meet the huge expenses of hospitalisation. However, the Developer failed to refund the
amount. During the pendency of proceedings, the wife has since expired on 08.12.2020, and there are
pending hospital bills to the tune of Rs.50 to 60 lakhs to be cleared.

We direct the Developer to refund the entire amount deposited by this respondent alongwith Interest @
9% S.I. p.a. within a period of 4 weeks from the date of this judgment. The failure to refund the amount
within 4 weeks will  make the Developer liable for payment of default interest @ 12% S.I. p.a. till the
payment is made.

Subodh Pawar vs M/S. Ireo Grace Realtech Pvt. Ltd. ... on 24 September, 2018

It would thus be seen that in these cases, the last date for offering possession of the flats expired on
23.01.2017, the construction is not complete even today, and even today, there is no certainty as to
when the OPs will be able to apply for and obtain the requisite Occupancy Certificate.   The
complainants therefore, cannot be compelled to keep on waiting for the apartments, and are entitled to
seek refund of their money with suitable compensation.

18.    The learned counsel for the complainants states on instructions taken from the complainant in CC
No.1998/2016 present in the court and taken from the other complainants in CC No.1998/2016 & CC
No.2000/2016 on telephone that they are restricting their claim in these complaints to the refund of the
principal amount paid by them along with compensation in the form of simple interest @ 10% per
annum from the date of each payment till the date of refund and the cost of litigation. 

19.    The complaints are therefore, disposed of with the following directions:

(i)      The OPs shall refund the entire principal amount received from the complainants alongwith
compensation in the form of simple interest @ 10% per annum from the date of each payment till the
date of refund.

(ii)      The OPs shall also pay a sum of Rs.25,000/- as the cost of litigation in each complaint.

(iii)     The aforesaid payment shall be made within three months from today

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