Bombay High Court says “Don’t repair unauthorized structures”

Adv. R. P. Rathod., explicates that on Monday Dt. 30^th January 2012 the Bombay High Court said to Mhada that “Unauthorized constructions should not be repaired”

A division bench of Justice Sharad Bobde and Justice Ramesh D. Dhanuka was hearing a petition filed by Shobha V. Koli who resides in Building No. 9, stating that the building had collapsed in 2010 and the landlord had managed to get work orders from Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation for its Repairs. The dilapidated structure is situated at 5th Cross Lane, Falkland Road.

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Gujarat Builders ordered to pay Rs. 14 Crore after the building collapsed in an Earthquake

Is your Building Earthquake proof? Read this. . .

A Landmark Judgment has been passed by the Gujarat State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, S. G. Highway, Gota, Ahmedabad granting compensation to the residents after the building collapsed in an earthquake, in-depth analysis by Adv. R. P. Rathod.

After a long fight of more than ELEVEN YEARS for justice, 40 Flat purchasers of Sangemarmar Apartments, which collapsed during the earthquake of 2001 at Ahmedabad, will receive compensation from the builders who are held responsible for the tragedy says Adv. R. P. Rathod.

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Now 35% compensatory FSI likely for Mumbai City

Residential buildings at Mumbai may get up to 35% compensatory FSI over and above the permissible construction limit after the town planning department tweaked BMC chief Subodh Kumar’s proposal to overhaul Mumbai’s building laws. The FSI or floor space index defines how much can be built on a plot.

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Basic differences between a Condominium Apartment, a Co-operative Society and an Company

Here I have tried to list some of the basic differences between the ownership of flats under MAOA, Co-operative Societies & Companies Act says Adv. R. P. Rathod.

Ø   The Maharashtra Apartment Ownership Act, 1970 is, as its preamble states, an Act to provide for the ownership of an individual apartment in a building and to make such apartment heritable and transferable property. Heritability and transferability of the apartment is the basic feature of holding the property governed by this Act, which distinguishes it from holding the property governed by the Co-operative Societies Act or the Companies Act. The entities are as under:

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