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Builders ordered to refund money

By Our Staff Reporter

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM Aug. 9. The State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission has directed two builders' firms, Vasanth Apartments and Constructions, represented by its managing director, B. Satheesh Nair and Heera Constructions, to pay Rs. 4,45,000, with interest at 18 per cent from July 1996, to a customer, for failing to deliver the flat even six years after signing the agreement.

The complainant, Lakshmi Muraleedharan of Mavelikkara, said in her complaint that the representatives of Vasanth apartments had approached her in 1996 with the proposal of the 11-storeyed building project, Serenade Apartments (later re-named as Princess Chambers).

She entered into an agreement with the firm and booked an apartment and paid Rs. 4.45 lakhs in two instalments.

As per the agreement, the flat should have been completed by June 1998.

But on finding that the project was nowhere, when she demanded a refund, the opposite parties refused to comply.

The project had been later taken over by Heera Constructions and hence was impleaded by the complainant as the fourth opposite party.

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