In 2007, Thane District Forum had ordered in a property dispute case that the respondents builder-developers Kuldeep Oswal and Gyanchand K Sancheti together should collect the pending Rs 6 lakh from the complainants, namely Smita Chandresh Sawla and Vibha Nilesh Shah (residents of Borivili), for the flats in Oswal Empire building here and get it registered, and also give the completion certificate of M-2 building to the complainants. Further, asking the respondents to pay a compensation of Rs 2,000 towards legal expenses.
The Forum then ordered that the respondents should individually make a payment of Rs 10,000 to complainants within two months of the order or else an additional sum of Rs 20,000 will be payable with interest at 9 percent. But as the respondents failed to comply with the orders of the Forum and evaded responding to the follow up by the complainants, they filed the present criminal complaint following which the court now decided to fine them with Rs 10,000 individually.
Taking a serious view of the non compliance of its earlier order, the Thane District Consumer Redressal Forum (TDCRF) invoked its judicial powers under section 27 of the Consumer Protection Act and imposed a penalty of Rs 10,000 each on two builders here failing which they will have to undergo 3 months imprisonment, that the penalty be paid within flat three days else the duo will be imprisoned.