Tribunal Rules Landowners in JDAs Aren’t RERA ‘Aggrieved Persons’
HYDERABAD: The Telangana Real Estate Regulatory Authority (RERA) Appellate Tribunal has issued a crucial ruling stating that landowners who engage in joint development agreements (JDAs) with developers do not qualify as “allottees” or “aggrieved persons” under the RERA Act. Consequently, they cannot seek legal recourse against developers through the RERA authority. This decision was made by a tribunal led by chairman Justice A Santhosh Reddy, with judicial member P Pradeep Kumar Reddy and administrative member Chitra Ramachandran. They emphasized that the mere presence of basic project information on a company’s website, under the ‘ongoing projects’ section, does not constitute advertising…