Supreme Court · 1996 INSC 323 · Decided 27 February 1996
Delhi Development Authority v. Shilpa Co-Operative Group Housing Society LTD. ETC.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1996 INSC 323 · [1996] 2 S.C.R. 1119
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 3962/1996
- Decided
- 27 February 1996
- Bench
- G.N. RAY, B.L. HANSARIA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
Housing A B Housing Society~A/lotment of land by Development Auth01ity-Es- C calatio11-Refusal to accept allotment-4:;ancellatio11 of allotment-F01feiture of eamest mo11ey-Extent of-Held on facts 50% of the actual total deposit should be f mfeited. The respondent-Societies were allotted land by in premium they refused to accept the D allotment and the same was consequently cancelled. On the question as to how much of the earnest money deposited by the respondent-Societies should be allowed to be forfeited by the Authority, the High Court held that in view of the judgment of this
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