Under Section 40 (1) of the RERA Act 2016, the authority can issue recovery warrants against developer who failed to comply with its order to refund home buyers.
Recovery of Money through Insolvency Laws
If any company is not making the payment as per agreed terms, then an insolvency petition may be filed u/s 7 or 9 based upon the facts, before NCLT to initiate the insolvency proceedings.
IBC- Rescue to the Employees
It is advised to the employees to recognize their rights under IBC and approach NCLT to recover their dues in a time-bound manner.
Developers refraining from registering with RERA
It’s been around 2 years of implementation of the RERA Act, various developers have failed to get their projects to register with their respective RERA Authorities.
Insolvency petition to NCLT by a Homebuyer
An application filed by the homebuyers under section 7 of IBC shall be maintainable. Therefore the homebuyers are advised to approach NCLT under IBC to recover their stuck money in a time-bound manner.
Does States have the power to dilute the RERA Act
The RERA laws explicitly says that the appropriate government shall only make rules for the smooth functioning of the act and it does not say anything about States powers to dilute the Central law.
NCLT to hold no say in justness of rejection of resolution plan
NCALT in the appeal filed in the matter of Kamineni’s reversed the order passed by NCLT and remanded the matter back to go through the liquidation process.
Builder stands in violation of MahaRERA’s order of refund
The RERA authority of Maharashtra ordered a builder to refund an amount of Rs. 1.8 Crore to a homebuyer because after the passage of two years the builder failed to register agreement to sale and had already charged 30% of the price.
Penalty of Rs 1.5 Lakh slabbed on builder for failure to register sale agreement
MAHARERA keeping up with the spirit of the Act recently has passed an order asking the builder to pay a sum of Rs.1.5 Lakh as penalty to the RERA authority for not registering the sale agreement.
RERA Orders remain on Paper
The authorities of most of the states have passed numerous orders but none of them have been executed in reality. The orders remain on paper and developer/ promoters have not complied the order.
Bombay High Court: Deposit 50% of the refund amount to hear the case
The high court upheld the decision of the Appellate tribunal by directing the builder to deposit the 50% of the refund amount as ordered by the authority in order to hear the plea.
MahaRERA rules on applicability of section-12 and 18 of RERA
While dismissing the complaint the authority observed that both the Section i.e. 12 and 18 operate at two separate times of the transaction.
Bihar RERA freezes bank accounts of builder
Bihar RERA Authority exercising power under Section-36 of the Act which gives power to the Authority to pass interim orders for contravention of Act freezed the bank accounts of the builder.
RC issued by RERA leads to arrest of builders
An RC was issued for recovering 3.04 crores, based on the same a 15 days’ notice was issued to clear the dues post which due to non-compliance builders were arrested.
Revival of sinking ship of Real Estate Sector
To revive the ship the major equipment which is required will be RERA as it will soon accelerate its healing on the damage caused to the real estate sector.