The Tribune: Jalandhar: Thursday, November 30, 2017.
The District
Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum has asked the estate officer of the Jalandhar
Development Authority (JDA) to issue a no objection certificate (NOC) to the
legal heirs of an LIG house applicant and pay Rs 10,000 as compensation for
causing him harassment.
In his
complaint, New Beant Nagar resident Inderjit Singh (now dead) had stated that
he had applied for an LIG house in 1983 with the PUDA Housing Board and was
allotted House No. 341, ground floor, Phagwara. The installments were being
paid regularly. When the complainant visited the site, he was taken aback to
see that the dwelling unit was not at all constructed. The matter was brought
to the notice of the Housing Commissioner, Chandigarh, who in turn allotted
LIG-164, GF, against the earlier on the same terms and conditions of the
initial allotment letter. Due to frequent transfers of the complainant, the
file regarding the new got misplaced and could not be traced.
On August 29,
2013, the complainant applied for issue of duplicate papers. He even lodged an
FIR on September 10 in the same year. “Next month, the PUDA asked me to bring
the ownership paper before they send the paper of House No.164. The PUDA is
well aware of the fact that the relevant paper of Flat No.164 are missing, that
is why duplicates were sought, but the action is still pending with them,” the
plaintiff wrote through his counsel Harleen Kaur.
The
complainant had said that he had personally visited PUDA many times and a lot
of correspondence made with PUDA office, but all in vain. The complainant asked
under RTI Act from EO/PUDA twice in March and May 2015 but he alleged that he
was supplied an incomplete information, which didn’t serve any purpose. The
complainant requested for an NoC from the PUDA to enable to get his property
transferred in his name from the competent authority. He stated that the PUDA
denied the issue of the certificate on the plea that a sum of Rs 40,420 was
pending, whereas the entire cost and interest has been deposited. The
complainant added that he had deposited a few installments against Flat No.
341, but that is not shown separately to clarify whether the few installments
deposited against 341, had been adjusted against Flat No.164 GF or not.
The forum
observed that it had been established that the complainant had been paying the
installment from 1986 to 2004. “He has not made the payment within a stipulated
period of 13 years, but paid the amount in 18 years. Even then the complainant
has made a payment of Rs 46,515 up to 2004, whereas the original price of the
flat was Rs 28,888 as mentioned on the allotment letter. The PUDA is not entitled
to recover any alleged due amount of Rs 40,420 from the complainant. Rather it
is bound to issue the no due certificate to the complainant, for the purpose of
transfer of the flat in the name of his legal heirs,” the forum observed.
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