Arrest realtor for delay in delivery, refusing refund, orders NCDRC
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The commission had earlier issued a bailable warrant against Disha Choudhury, the managing director of company Dreamz Infra India Ltd for not complying with its order to appear before it. Left with no option, a bench of Justice Inderjit Singh and Sadhna Shanker directed her arrest. The court passed the order on a plea of homebuyers who approached the commission through advocate Chandrachur Bhattacharya seeking execution of commission's 2022 order to refund the money which was upheld by the SC also.
The commission had in 2022 directed Dreamz Infra India Ltd to complete construction and offer possession to the homebuyers along with delay interest of 9 % per annum or refund the money. Thousands of buyers who had booked flats in the housing projects in Bengaluru in 2012 were cheated by the company as they were promised possession in 2014 but were left waiting for their flats even after 11 years of the deadline.
NCDRC had in April issued bailable arrest warrants against Choudhary with directions to release her on personal bail bond of Rs 10 lakhs with one surety of the like amount but the city police informed the commission that it could not locate her to execute the warrants.
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