Registration of 49 projects revoked for unfair trade practices
Hindustan TimesShoulder: Kalyan MahaRERA scam Strap: Housing regulator freezes bank accounts; urges civic authorities to upload CC, OC on dedicated portals to protect buyers In a suo moto action, the state housing regulator, the Maharashtra Real Estate Regulatory Authority, has revoked the registration of 49 projects being probed in Kalyan RERA scam for allegedly submitting fake commencement certificates for “unfair trade practices”, and directed that their designated bank accounts associated with the projects be frozen. “In the present case of not obtaining the CCs from the Competent Authority and misrepresenting to this Authority as well as the allottees/ home buyers and collecting money through misrepresentation and taking the bookings in the above-mentioned MahaRERA registered projects can be said to be unfair or deceptive practice,” noted the November 7 suo moto order by the bench. MahaRERA also urged authorities to “immediately” put in place a system wherein all milestone approvals relevant to buyers are uploaded on a dedicated portal by the respective planning authority so that they can be verified by the buyers as well as the authority. With the suo moto action, the list of projects where MahaRERA has terminated the registration of a project has swelled from 11 projects over five years till August this year, to 60 projects.