Content Provider | Supreme Court of India |
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e-ISSN | 30484839 |
Language | English |
Access Restriction | NDLI |
Subject Keyword | Housing Builder flat nature and extent of relief |
Content Type | Text |
Resource Type | Law Judgement |
Jurisdiction | India |
Case(s) Referred | Referred Case 0 Referred Case 1 |
Case Type | Appeal |
Court | Supreme Court of India |
Disposal Nature | Appeal Allowed |
Headnote | Housing – Builder flat – Rights of subsequent purchaser (re- allottee), when builder does not honour its commitment to deliver the flat within a stipulated time – Refund of amount deposited with developer/ builder in respect of subject flat – Relief of interest on refund claim made by the subsequent purchaser – Entitlement to – Held: The nature and extent of relief, to which a subsequent purchaser can be entitled to, would be fact dependent – However, it cannot be said that a subsequent purchaser who steps into the shoes of an original allottee of a housing project in which the builder has not honoured its commitment to deliver the flat within a stipulated time, cannot expect even reasonable time, for the performance of the builder’s obligation – Such a conclusion would be arbitrary, given that there may be a large number of flat buyers, waiting for their promised flats – In such case, a purchaser who no doubt enters the picture later surely belongs to the same class – Further, the purchaser agrees to buy the flat with a reasonable expectation that delivery of possession would be in accordance within the bounds of the delayed timeline that he has knowledge of, at the time of purchase of the flat – Therefore, in the event purchaser claims refund, on an assessment that he too can (like the original allottee) no longer wait, and face intolerable burdens, the equities would have to be moulded – It would no doubt be fair to assume that the purchaser had knowledge of the delay – However, to attribute knowledge that such delay would continue indefinitely, based on an a priori assumption, would not be justified – The equities can properly be moulded by directing refund of the principal amounts, with interest @ 9% p.a. from the date the builder acquired knowledge of the transfer, or acknowledged it – In the instant case, there is material on the record suggestive of the circumstance that even as on the date of presentation of the instant appeal, the occupancy certificate was not forthcoming – In these circumstances, given that the purchaser/respondent had stepped into the shoes of the original allottee, and intimated the appellant-builder about this fact in April 2016, the interests of justice demand that interest at least from that date should be granted, in favour of the respondent – Consumer Protection – Equity. |
Judge | Hon'ble Mr. Justice S. Ravindra Bhat |
Neutral Citation | 2021 INSC 347 |
Petitioner | M/s Laureate Buildwell Pvt. Ltd. |
Respondent | Charanjeet Singh |
SCR | [2021] 6 S.C.R. 673 |
Judgement Date | 2021-07-22 |
Case Number | 7042 |
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