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The National Commission had to ask the Punjab government how many square yards make an acre in Zirakpur before it could rule on a one-acre shortfall claim against G.S. Promoters. The answer, two different karams in the same sub-tehsil, left the project at 4.81 acres and the society with notional compensation for the admitted 0.19 acre gap.
Resolution plans approved for both Jaiprakash Associates and Jaypee Infratech bind every allottee, the Commission held, rejecting the plea that consumer remedies survive Section 31 of the IBC and sending each buyer to whichever plan lists their tower. Only the right to come back if the plans are not implemented is kept alive.
Ansal Housing won on car parking charges and a blanket bar on demands, but the National Commission held that handing over Flat 804 in Ansal Heights did not end the deficiency while no occupancy certificate had been obtained, and moulded relief for a buyer who had not appealed.
The National Commission found the Chitresh Cold Storage complaint within time, held that utmost good faith required Oriental Insurance to offer a non-standard settlement for a genuine but poorly documented loss, and cut the usual 75 per cent to 70 for the lapses of the insured.
Thirteen years after a fire gutted an exclusive Reebok outlet in Bihar, the National Commission rejected the fraud, suppression and limitation pleas raised by National Insurance, awarded the sum the insurer had itself assessed, and refused the Rs 49 lakh franchise income claim.
The National Commission held that an offer made nearly 27 months after the fire, followed by a letter closing the claim when Sapphire Papers Mill would not sign, left the mill no free choice; it then found the stock had never been underinsured.
AVM J. Rajendra and Justice Anoop Kumar Mendiratta dismissed a complaint over a cancelled flat at Lodha Marquise, a municipal certificate having confirmed the construction stage on which the disputed demand was raised.
AVM J. Rajendra and Justice Saroj Yadav set aside concurrent findings for the claimants, holding that neither forum below had engaged with a hospital record of cardiac treatment three years before the policy.
The State Consumer Commission dismissed five appeals by Housefed Punjab, upholding refund orders for allottees who refused to pay a 62% price escalation on Banur flats with no possession timeline.
The Rajasthan SCDRC Circuit Bench at Bikaner set aside a district forum award of over Rs. 1.12 lakh against North Western Railway, finding no proved negligence and no valid evidence affidavit from the complainant.
The State Consumer Commission at Chandigarh dismissed M/s Impact Sare Magnum Townships' appeal, holding that no valid possession was ever offered and the complaint was not time-barred.
NCLAT remands to NCLT Mumbai a disputed Master Lease Agreement between Orix Leasing and JSK Marketing, directing fresh consideration of fraud and moratorium violation claims.
NCDRC holds IFFCO-Tokio's 2012 repudiation of a machinery breakdown claim invalid, finding the insurer had knowledge of the rotor swap through broker communications and pre-inspection.
The National Commission held that a State Consumer Commission has no power to return complaints and directed revival of five flat-buyer cases pending since 2018.
After a Supreme Court remand and nearly three decades of litigation, NCDRC splits its verdict on two personal accident policies covering the 1997 road-accident death of Kishori Lal Sharan Garg.
