To protect the interests of homebuyers, the Supreme Court has mandated that all residential real estate transactions for new housing projects must be registered with local revenue authorities once the buyer/allottee has paid a minimum of 20% of the property’s cost. Additionally, the Court specified that contracts which significantly diverge from the Model RERA Agreement …
The Supreme Court on September 1 reaffirmed that the title to immovable property cannot be transferred without a registered sale deed. The bench, consisting of Justices Aravind Kumar and Sandeep Mehta, set aside a decision made by the Delhi High Court. The High Court had upheld a trial court’s order that granted possession, a mandatory …
Friday, the Delhi High Court reduced the maintenance previously awarded to a man’s estranged wife and child. The court took into account his financial obligations, including the repayment of a home loan and his responsibilities toward his parents. Justice Neena Bansal Krishna stated that “the maintenance amount must be determined in a balanced manner—one that …
The remedies available to a tenant in the event that legal action is taken under Section 14 of the SARFAESI Act while the tenant’s tenancy is still in effect have been clarified by the Allahabad High Court. The Bench of Justices Siddhartha Varma and Shekhar B. Saraf clarified in that regard that two of the …
On February 13, the Supreme Court overturned the temporary protection afforded to officers of Indiabulls Housing Finance Ltd. in a formal complaint filed in response to the Director of Shipra Estate’s complaint, and the Enforcement Directorate’s ensuing inquiry. The criminal procedures were stayed by the Allahabad High Court last year, shielding the policemen from arrest. …
The Bombay High Court noted that an unsuccessful or postponed reconstruction cannot violate the fundamental rights of senior residents regarding their access to shelter. An elderly woman who was a member of Navin Manju Co-operative Housing Society Ltd. filed a writ case with the court in 2019. She claimed that her flat had been abandoned …
The Bombay High Court ruled that children could not lawfully claim exclusive possession or ownership of their parents’ property while they were alive. The son’s petition against the Senior Citizens Maintenance Tribunal’s (Tribunal) order to leave his mother’s tenement was denied by the court. In order to secure the well-being of senior citizens, the Maintenance …
Developer Accord Builders was recently hit with an exemplary cost of Rs. 1 Lakh by the Bombay High Court for allotting a rehab tenement without holding a lottery in front of an assistant registrar of cooperative societies from the Slum Redevelopment Authority (SRA). The SRA’s Slum Rehabilitation Program in Kurla, Mumbai, is at the center …
The Patna High Court’s division judge bench ruled that the son’s relationship with his father does not give him the right to live in a structure that is solely his property. According to the case’s factual matrix, respondent (the father of appellant No. 1) owned the rent house where appellant Nos. 1 and 2 were …
The Himachal Pradesh High Court partially granted a petition filed by the petitioner to quash and set aside an order dated 20.8.2022, issued by the learned Principal Judge Family Court, Shimla, in which the respondent was granted ₹5,000/-per month in maintenance under Section 125(1) of the Cr.P.C. for interim maintenance. The respondent’s argument that he …
