Supreme Court of India

Ireo Grace Realtech Pvt. Ltd. v. Abhishek Khanna & Others

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Reported as [2021] 2 S.C.R. 1
Bench Dr. Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud, Indu Malhotra and Indira Banerjee JJ.
Decided 11 January 2021

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What the Court ordered

We hold that the allottees in ChartB are entitled to refund of the entire amount deposited by them. (iv) In so far as awardof compensation by payment of Interest is concerned, clause 13.4 of the Apartment Buyer’s Agreement provides that the Developer shall be liable to pay the allotte e compensation calculated @ Rs. 7.5 per sq. ft. of the Super Area for ever y month of delay, after the end of the Grace Period.

Judgment, page 57

From the headnote

Consumer Protection – Apartment Buyer’s Agreement – Unfair trade practice – Oppressive and one sided contractual terms – Held: The Developer cannot compel the apartment buyers to be bound by the one-sided contractual terms contained in the Apartment Buyer’s Agreement – Incorporation of one-sided and unreasonable clauses in the Apartment Buyer’s Agreement constitutes an u nfair trade practice u/s.2(1)(r) of CP Act, 1986 – Even under t he CP Act of 1986, the powers of the consumer fora were in no ma nner constrained to declare a contractual term as unfair or one-sided a s an incident of the

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