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IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI
R.RAGHUNANDAN RAO, SUMATHI JAGADAM
Shaik Allabakshu – Appellant
Versus
State of Andhra Pradesh – Respondent
Order :
R. Raghunandan Rao, J.
The petitioner herein is the Managing Director of a company named ‘Vijaya Saradhi Housing Private Limited’ which is involved in real estate business. The said company is said to have made a lay out of land in certain survey numbers of Vankayalapadu village of Pattipadu Mandal, Guntur District. These plots were offered for sale and various members of the public had entered into agreements for purchasing these plots and paid substantial amounts of money towards the purchase of these plots. However, neither the company nor the petitioner herein was completing the transactions by execution of necessary documents. The purchasers, contending that the company had never even purchased the land which is sought to be made into plots, had approached the District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, Guntur for compensation and refund of the amounts already paid to M/s. Vijaya Saradhi Housing Private Limited. The respondents in these consumer cases were the petitioner described as a director of M/s. Vijaya Saradhi Housing Private Limited and his wife who was also described as a director of Vijaya Saradhi Housing Private Limited.
2. These consumer cases, more speci
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