Legal experts say that aggrieved home buyers file a case in RERA first and then approach the RERA Appellate Tribunal and then the high court and then ultimately the Supreme Court if their dispute is not solved.
The Consumer Protection Act is a wide-ranging provision and it is not a specific resolution like the Insolvency ad Bankruptcy Code and the remedies are simultaneously and mutually exclusive.
Supreme Court rules that remedies under RERA and Consumer can be pursued by a buyer and one does not bar another. The same has been done in the matter of “M/S Imperial Structures Ltd vs Anil Patni and another”.
The RERA Act at present is still a toothless tiger due to lack of execution process of RERA orders. The reliefs under RERA at the moment rest only in paper.
As a developing country, India had huge prospects for growth in the real estate sector, seeing this many people invested in the sector in good faith.
The article speaks about the legal remedy or solution as to how an order passed by RERA or consumer court or others fixing any debts and liability can be executed or honored.
The home buyers have multiple forums to their rescue and it depends on them as to under what procures and act or code they wish to proceed.
Supreme Court allowed several buyers to join their suit property in order to increase valuation of their dispute and approach the NCDRC however buyers still find it difficult to get timely relief from the NCDRC.
The parliament in order to regulate this one of the fastest-growing sectors passed “The Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 20164 which came into effect on 1st May 2016.
Being the least expensive and less time-consuming, Mediation is popular ADR in India. The mediator plays the role of a neutral party who helps the parties to have direct communication and assists in exploring the options and a mutually accepted agreement.
All allottees approaching before these forums secure reliefs for them but the execution force is a bit low therefore they feel remediless even after winning a long legal battle. A better option which has come forward is where allottees come forward to form a group and then approach these forums.
whereas legislation like RERA provides for individual remedies against the Builder, the IBC Code gives collective control over the affairs and management of the Corporate Debtor to its financial creditors.
The Hon’ble Supreme Court’s decision is a watershed moment for homebuyers and allottees. A number of findings in the current judgment support this conclusion, including parallel remedies under RERA and the Consumer Protection Act.
Forum for People’s Collective Efforts, has approached the parliamentary standing committee on finance with its objection to a proposed amendment to the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code.
A growing number of Builders, Developers, Promoters and stakeholders in the Real Estate Industry are backing RERA to be the first applicable redressal mechanism to homebuyers.
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