In a recent Judgment the Builders were required to
refund the Parking Charges collected by them analysis Adv. R. P. Rathod.
The State consumer watchdog has ruled
that builders must provide parking space without charging additional amount
from flat buyers. The Maharashtra State Consumer Disputes Redressal
Commission, whose order is legally binding, recently directed a
developer to refund the money he had charged for parking spaces and allowed
compensation of Rs 10,000 for failing to execute the deed of an apartment in
favour of its buyers.
"As per civic rules, builders must provide
free parking space to flat buyers," said the bench comprising the
commission's president, Justice (Retd) SB Mhase, and members PN Kashalkar and
SP Lale.
The builder in this case, Seetharama
Iyer, was not allowed to collect Rs 10,000 as parking charges from flat buyers and was asked to refund the
amount.
The developer was also ordered to pay Rs 5,000 to the complainants, Dr
Siddhartha Sengupta and Sunita Nair, residents of Ganesh Bhuvan at Powai.
Iyer was given a month to pay the
amounts and execute the deed.
Sengupta and Nair had moved the
commission through their counsel UB Wavikar in 1999. They said that Iyer had
agreed to provide three parking spaces to them, one each for the flats they
purchased. However, he later sold one of the parking spaces to somebody else.
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