Flat seeker to get Rs 50k as compensation from DDA

DDA has been directed by apex consumer court to refund Rs 3.79 lakh ‘excess amount’ collected from a flat applicant, and also pay Rs 50,000 as compensation to him for arbitrary revision of flat price.

The Delhi Development Authority (DDA) has been directed by the apex consumer court to refund Rs 3.79 lakh ‘excess amount’ collected from a flat applicant, and also pay Rs 50,000 as compensation to him for arbitrary revision of the flat price.

National Consumer Commission Bench comprising members Rajyalakshmi Rao and P D Shenoy dismissed DDA’s appeal against the order of the state consumer panel, which had asked it to refund Rs 3.93 lakh to R K Sewal.

Sewal was forced to pay Rs 6.13 lakh for allotment of a flat at East of Kailash here by the land development agency.

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The state panel had also awarded a compensation of Rs 50,000 to Sewal, finding DDA guilty of deficiency in service.

Sewal had applied for a flat in 1982 with the DDA and had already deposited Rs 2.20 lakh as its cost.

However, a few flat applicants challenged the flat allotment process in the High Court where matter lingered on for over a decade.

Consequently, the flat allottees were asked to pay Rs 6.13 lakh instead of Rs 2.20 lakh as revised price, which Sewal challenged before the state Commission.

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The apex Consumer Commission, which upheld lower panel’s order, however, reduced the amount to be refunded by Rs 14,800.

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