Builder to pay for not handing over flats

Holding a construction firm guilty of deficiency in service,the Maharashtra Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum has asked it to hand over possession of two flats to a buyer or refund the money already paid with interest.

The forum,comprising presiding member S R Khanzode and member S B Sawarkar,passed the order on an appeal filed by Mathew Varghese against S S Construction last week. It also asked the firm to pay Varghese Rs 50,000 as cost incurred for legal proceedings.

Varghese had agreed to buy two flats in the firm’s project in Nashik.

Of the total Rs 9.69 lakh,he paid Rs 9.43 lakh,and the balance was to be paid while taking possession. But the company did not execute the written agreement and failed to deliver possession,his complaint said.