West Bengal

Bankura

CC/76/2023

Sri Harikrishna Pramanik - Complainant(s)

Versus

Sri Suman Kumar Jana - Opp.Party(s)

Sandip Chakrabarty

02 Apr 2024

ORDER

 IN    THE   DISTRICT   CONSUMER   DISPUTES   REDRESSAL COMMISSION, BANKURA 

  Consumer Complaint No. 76/2023 

                                                    Date of Filing: 24/08/2023                                             

Before:                                        

1. Samiran Dutta                            Ld. President.      

2. Siddhartha Sankar Bhui            Ld. Member. 

 

For the Complainant:  Ld. Advocate Sandip Chakrabarti

For the O.P.:  Ld. Advocate Santanu Mukherjee

 

Complainant  

Sri Harikrishna Pramanik, S/O-Late Shrish Chandra Pramanik, R/O-Beparihat,P.O & P.S,Dist-Bankura,Pin-722101, Mob-9749631121

Opposite Party 

1. Sri Suman Kumar Jana,S/O-Sri Tapan Kumar Jana,
2. Smt.Dipanwita Samanta,W/O-Sri Suman Kumar Jana@Sri Suman Jana,both are R/O-196 Canal Street,4^th Floor,Sribhumi,Kolkata.Pin-700048
3. Sri Vicky Singh ,S/O-Late Ranjit Singh,5/H/1,Bagmari Road,Maniktala,Kolkata,Pin-700054 , All the Owner/Director/Developer/Proprietor of- M/S. DHARITRI INFRAVENTURE  PVT. LTD.
4. Manager/Competent Authority, M/S. DHARITRI INFRAVENTURE PVT. LTD., Premises No-DN-51;Merlin Infinite,6^th Floor, Suite-606,Sector-V,Salt Lake City, Kolkata-700091                                                                                                                                                                                                      

FINAL ORDER / JUDGEMENT

Order No.10

Dated: 02-04-2024

Both parties file hazira through Advocate.

The case is fixed for argument.

After hearing argument from both sides the Commission proceeds to dispose of the case as hereunder: -

The Complainant’s case is that he booked a Flat from the O.P./Developers for Rs.19,50,000/- in terms of MOU dt.06/10/2018 and the Complainant paid Rs.9 Lakh to the O.P. as booking amount. Thereafter the O.P./Developers could not hand over the Flat to the Complainant and accordingly the Complainant is entitled to get back the advance money of Rs.9 Lakh out of which he has already received Rs.5,90,000/- from time to time. The Complainant has therefore approached this Commission for appropriate relief.

O.P./Developers contested the case by filing a written version contending inter alia that the Complainant is not entitled to get any relief in this case on maintainability point.

-: Decision with reasons: -

Having regard to the facts of the case, submission, contention and the documents on both sides the Commission finds that the Complainant has already received Rs.5,90,000/- out of total advance money of Rs.9 Lakh and the Complainant is therefore entitled to get refund of balance Rs.3,10,000/-.

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Ld. Advocate for the O.P. has however contended before the Commission that the Complainant is not entitled to get any relief in this case as similar prayer has been made before Real Estate Regulatory Authority (RERA) Bench, Calcutta being WB RERA/COM/000266 with further initiation of a criminal case before Ld. A.C.J.M., Bidhannagar No. being ECPS case no.69/2023. All the above mentioned cases are still pending for disposal and no finding has yet been made by any of the forums.

It is well settled that the reliefs under both the Real Estate (Regulation & Development) Act , 2016 and Consumer Protection Act, 2019 are additional in nature (vide Section 88 of RERA and Section 100 C.P. Act) and as such there is no legal bar to initiate legal action under either of those Acts. The instant case has come up for final disposal today without having any finality of decision of the above mentioned RERA case but with the disposal of the instant case the Complainant must take necessary steps for dropping the above mentioned RERA cases in accordance with law and the fate of the above mentioned criminal cases may depend on the result of the instant case.

With this observation the instant case is disposed of on contest by directing the O.P./Developers to pay to the Complainant Rs.3,10,000/- with compensation of Rs.10,000/- within one month from this date in default law will take its own course.

Both parties be supplied copy of this order free of cost.

 

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HON’BLE   PRESIDENT           HON’BLE MEMBER