Supreme Court · 2020 INSC 503 · Decided 24 August 2020
WG. CDR. Arifur Rahman Khan and Aleya Sultana and ORS. v. DLF Southern Homes PVT LTD. (Now Known As Begur Omr Homes PVT. LTD.) and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2020 INSC 503 · [2020] 9 S.C.R. 136
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 6239/2019
- Decided
- 24 August 2020
- Bench
- D.Y. CHANDRACHUD, K.M. JOSEPH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Consumer Protection Act Section 2(1)(g), 14(1)(e), 2(1)(o)
Headnote
Consumer Protection Act, 1986 - s.2(1)(g) - Deficiency of service - Complaint by flat buyers seeking compensation inter alia alleged delay in handing over possession of Dismissed by NCDRC - On appeal, held: Failure of the developer to hand over possession within the contractually stipulated period amounts to a deficiency of service u/s.2(1)(g) - In the present case, under the Apartment Buyers Agreement (ABA), the developer was obligated to hand over
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