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'Not got a single paisa': Noida asks SC to relook interest rate cap for realtors
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SME Times News Bureau | 14 Sep, 2021
Over a year after the Supreme Court had, in June 2020, directed Noida
and Greater Noida to cap the interest rate at around 8 per cent for
delay in payment of land cost by builders, instead of a steep 15-23 per
cent, the authorities have asked the top court to recall its order,
citing that the builders have not deposit "a single paisa" to clear
their dues.
Advocate Ravindra Kumar, representing the
authorities, submitted before a bench of Justices U.U. Lalit and Ajay
Rastogi on Monday that this order was passed without examining all
issues.
Then the top court was hearing the Amrapali case and it
was assessing ways to protect the interest of Amrapali home buyers, but,
the general order passed by the court was applicable to all real estate
developers, who were not even party in the case, he contended.
As
the bench asked how is it possible to recall the order after one year,
against the backdrop of claims that some of the builders might have
benefited, counsel submitted that after the top court's June 10 order,
everything has been halted. "Not a single paisa has been paid in the
last one year," he told the bench.
Kumar Mihir, counsel for
Amrapali home buyers, said: "This issue is affecting all the home buyers
of Noida and Greater Noida who are waiting for registration of their
title deeds."
He added that hopefully the top court will decide
this issue at the earliest and ensure that no extra burden is passed on
to home buyers by the builders, who have, for reasons best known to
them, defaulted on payment of land dues to the authorities.
Counsel
representing the builders objected to the submissions made by the Noida
and Greater Noida counsel, saying that seeking the recall of the top
court is not correct and the authorities waited for the judge, who
passed the order in the matter, to retire and then filed this
application.
In its June last year order amid the pandemic, the
top court had cited the current state of real estate, the projects at a
standstill, and the need to give impetus to such housing projects,
mainly considering plight of home buyers and as pointed out by Noida and
Greater Noida Authorities that 114 plots were allotted from 2005
onwards, but most of projects are incomplete.
"We direct that
rate of interest on the outstanding premium and other dues to be
realised in all such cases at the rate of 8 per cent per annum and let
the Noida and Greater Noida authorities do a restructuring of the
repayment schedule so that amount is paid and Noida and Greater Noida
authorities are able to realise the same," the top court had said.
The
June order was passed on a plea of Ace Group of Companies alleging that
various projects are stalled due to excessive lease rent, penalty and
interest charged and levied, additional land costs demanded, and charged
on the land allotted.
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