Court orders Mumbai builder to refund buyer for delayed flat
MUMBAI: The Maharashtra Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission has mandated two builder firms to refund Rs 1.05 crore with interest to a couple for failing to deliver their flat after full payment and selling it to someone else. In a ruling delivered last week, the commission observed that the complainants, having invested their life savings in the Mumbai project, underwent a “prolonged and egregious ordeal lasting over a decade”. The decision was made ex parte, as the builders—Universal Housing & Infrastructure and Universal Construction, along with managers Saquib Shaikh Ahmed Mukadam and Sajid Shaikh Ahmed Mukadam—did not respond to the commission.…
