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2023 Supreme(Del) 352

PURUSHAINDRA KUMAR KAURAV
Supertech Urban Home Buyers Association (Suha) Foundation Through Its Authorized Representatives – Appellant
Versus
Union Of India, (Ministry Of Housing And Urban Affairs), Through Its Standing Counsel, Nirman Bhawan, Maulana Azad Road, New Delhi-110011 – Respondent


Advocates Appeared:
For the Petitioner:Mr. Nishant Das and Ms. Aatrayi Das, Mr. Deepak Gautam, Ms. Akanksha Kapoor along with Mr. Avinash Sharma and Mr. Sidanant Chaudhary, Mr. Mukesh Kumar, Mr. Sanyam Saxena and Mr. Nubair Alvi, Mr. Vibhor Bagga, Ms. Esha Dogra and Mr. Yugantar Singh Chauhan, Mr. Shashwat Anand, Mr. Shashwat Parihar and Mr. Dhruva Vig, Mr. Abhinav Agnihotri & Mr. Deepak Vohra, Ms. Divya Rana, Mr. Ritesh Khare, Mr. Hardik Vashisht & Ms. Adith Menon, Mr. Ritesh Khare, Mr. Abhishek Gusain, Ms. Namrata and Ms. Esha Tibriwal, Mr. Souray Ghosh, Ms. Akriti Arva, Mr. Rajiv Kapur & Mr. Akshit Kapur, Ms. Zubeda Begum along with Mr. R. L. Sinha, Mr. Amandeep Singh, Mr. Karmveer, Mr. Dilip Kumar Niranjan & Ajay Kumar, Ms. Harshit Goyal, Mr. Deepak Parashar along with Mr. Prakhar Singh, Mr. Rahul Malhotra & Ms. Anchal Tiwari, Mr. Alok Tripathi, Ms. Rashi Jain and Mr. Mihir Garg, Mr. Manoj Yadav and Mr. Akshat Bisht, Mr. Akshay Srivastava, Mr. Piyush Singh & Mr. Aditya Parolia, Ms. Mahima Ahuja and Ms. Ridhi Jain, Mr. Ehraz Zafar-petitioner No. 2-in-person in Item No. 272, Mr. Manish Patni, Mr. Aayush Milruka and Mr. Vishal Hablani, Mr. Akshay Sahay and Ms. Shradha Narayan, Mr. Ratnesh Sharma and Mr. Rahul Raman, Mr. Sachin Bajpai and Ms. Sonam Priya, Mr. Siddhant Kumar and Ms. Vidhi Udayshankar, Ms. Anushree Narain and Mr. Mayank Srivastava, Ms. Kiran Bhardwaj, Ms. Anushree Malviya, Mr. Abhinay Sharma along with Ms. Sakshi Jain and Mr. Pooran Chand Roy, Mr. Mukul Mr. Davesh Chaurasia, Mr. Virender Pratap Singh, Ms. Priya Mishra, Ms. Pinky Yadav and Ms. Shubhra Parashar, Mr. Chaitanyashil Priyadarshi, Ms. Saloni Sharma and Mr. Tejaswi, Mr. Aditya Bhattacharya, Mr. Abhinav Jaganathan, Mr. Paresh B Lal and Mr. Abhishek Singh, Mr. Deepak Prakash, Mr. Subhash Choudhary, Mr. Ravindra Singh and Ms. Monika Rai, Mr. Raghavendra M. Bajaj, Mr. Kumar Karan and Mr. Nikhil Bamal, Mr. Pradeep Kumar, Ms. Tanu Priya Gupta, Mr. Bhaavan Mahajan, Mr. Aayush Agarwal, Mr. Devansh Shekhar, Mr. Sanjeev Kumar Singh and Mr. Bishm Pratap Singh, Mr. Shighra Kumar, Ms. Rishi K. Awasthi, Mr. Usman G. Khan and Mr. Rahul Kumar, Mr. Deepak Biswas and Ms. Varsha Agarwal, Mr. Saket Sikri, Mr. Vikalp Mudgal, Mr. Kshitij Mudgal and Ms. Priya Singh, Ms. Shobhana Takiar, Mr. Shrey Nanda, Ms. Swadha Gupta, Mr. Prabhat Kumar and Mr. Anurag Dhar Dubey, Mr. Mayank Srivastava, Mr. Anshul Gupta, Ms. Kirti Dua, Mr. Shubham Kaushik, Mr. Ravi Shandilkar, Ms. Shubhangi Tiwari and Mr. Prakhar Bharadwaj, Mr. Bharat Bhushan, Mr. Sidhant Kumar, Ms. Manyaa Chandok, Ms. Muskan Gopal and Ms. Vidhi Udayshankar, Mr. Dilip Kumar Niranjan, Mr. Sandeep Bajaj, Mr. Devansh Jain and Ms. Vasudha Chadha, Mr. M. P. Sahay, Ms. Eccha Shukla, Ms. Awantika and Mr. Sachin Kharb.
For the Respondents: Mr. Neeraj, SPC with Mr. Sahaj, Mr. Vedansh, Mr. Anand and Mr. Rudra, Ms. Archana Surve, Mr. Jatin Singh and Ms. Roppali, Ms. Archana Pathak Dave and Mr. Parmod Kumar Vishnoi, Mr. Nimitjya Chaudhary, SPC, along with Deepak, Ms. Aakansha Kaul and Mr. Digvijay Prasad, Mr. Virender Pratap Singh Charak, Ms. Shubhra Parashar and Ms. Pinky Yadav, Ms. Bharti Raju, Sr. Panel Counsel, Chetanja Puri & Anand Awasthi, Ms. Rishi K. Awasthi, Mr. Usman G. Khan and Mr. Rahul Kumar Gupta, Mr. Nirvikar, Ms. Ayshwara Chander and Mr. K. S. Pratap, Mr. Sushil Raaja, Mr. S. K. Tyagi, CGSC along with Mr. Abhishek Singh, Mr. Pallav Saxena along with Mohammad, Mr. Diwaker and Mr. Abdul Wasin, Mr. Vijay Joshi and Mr. Gurjas Singh Narula, Mr. Satya Ranjan Gusain (Central Govt. Sr. Panel) and Mr. Kautilya Birat, Mr. Om Prakash along with Mr. Chandresh Pratap, Ms. Swati Mishra, Ms. Parnashree Banerjee and Mr. Aniruidh Sukla (GD), Mr. Siddharth Khatana, SPC and Mr. Rahul Kumar Sharma (GP), Mr. Kunwar Sachdev, Mr. Rahul Chauhan, Ms. Reema Khorana, Mr. Ajay Uppal, Ms. Nidhi Raman, CGSC along with Mr. Zubin Singh and Ms. Charu Modi, Mr. Vedanta Varma and Mr. Vibhor Kush, Mr. Rishabh Sahu, CGSC with Mr. Sameer Sharma, Mr. Rishabh Sahu and Sameer Sharma, Mr. Ramesh Babu. Ms. Manisha Singh, Ms. Tanya Chowdhary, Ms. Jagriti Bharti and Mr. Rohan Srivastava, Mr. Govind Manoharan and Ms. Diksha Tiwari, Ms. Amrita Singh, Mr. Atul Kumar Singh, Mr. Mimansak Bhardwaj, Mr. Jai Prakash, S.P.C with Mr. Divyanshi Maurya, Ms. Nidi Raman, CGSC along with Mr. Abhishek Singh, Mr. Jatin Singh, Mr. Keshav Sehgal, Mr. Shivam Gaur and Mr. Kashish Bajaj, Ms. Ritu Reniwal, Ms. Pratima N. Lakra, CGSC along with Mr. Chandan Prajapati and Mr. Apoorv Sharma, Mr. Kavindra Gill, Mr. Neeraj SPC, Mr. Sahay, Mr. Vedansh Anand and Mr. Rudra, Mr. Siddharth Khatah, SPC, Mr. Rahul Kumar Sharma, Mr. Siddharth Khatah, SPC, Mr. Sahay and Mr. Vedansh Anand, Mr. Siddhartha Khatah, SPC, Mr. Sahay, Mr. Vedansh Anand, Ms. Ekta Chaudhary, Mr. Divyank Dutt Dwivedi, Mr. Naginder Benipal, Mr. Amit Mahaliyan, Mr. Santosh Kumar Raut and Mr. Abhishek Chaudhary, Mr. Sameer Vats, Mr. Dev. P. Bhardwaj CGSC along with Ms. Anubha Bhardwaj, Mr. Venancio D'Costa, Ms. Astha and Mr. Himanshu Sharma, Ms. Monika Arora, CGSC along with Mr. Yash Tyagi, Mr. Ripudaman Bharadwaj CGSC with Kushgra Kumar, Mr. Vinay K. Sharma and Mr. Vikram Aditya Mishra, Mr. Chiranjiv Kumar along with Mr. Mukesh Sachdeva, Mr. Anurag Ahlualia, CGSC, Mr. Ajay Digpaul, CGSC along with Ms. Swati Kwatra and Mr. Kamal Digpaul, Mr. Samir Malik, Mr. Shahan Ulla and Mr. Krishan Kumar, Mr. O.P. Gaggar and Mr. Sachindra Karn, Mr. O.P. Gaggar & Mr. Sachindra Karn, Mr. Ravi Prakash, CGSC along with Mr. Varun Aggarwal and Mr. Amon Rewaria and Farmon Ali, Mr. Jitesh Vikram Srivastava, Sr. Panel Counsel along with Mr. Prajesh Vikram Srivastava, Ms. Nidhi raman, CGSC along with Mr. Zubin Singh, Mr. Rajesh Kumar, SPC, Ms. Ramneet Kaur and Mr. Shaurya Katoch, Mr. Chritarth Palli and Mr. Ritik Shah, Mr. R. K. Sinha, Mr. Ayan, Ms. Vandana, Atul Nayak and Mr. Dheeraj, Ms. Mani Gupta, Ms. Saumya Upadhyay, Mr. Aman Choudhary and Ms. Sonali Jain, Mr. Premtosh Mishra and Mr. Vasoodev Sharma, Ms. Amrita Singh, Ms. Nishtha Jain, Ms. Monika Arora, CGSC along with Mr. Yash Tyagi, Mr. Niraj Kumar, Mr. Jitesh Vikram Srivastava, Sr. Panel Counsel along with Mr. Prajesh Vikram Srivastava, Mr. Gaurav Sharma, Sr. Panel Counsel along with Jitendra Kumar Tripathi, Mr. Siddhartha Nagpal, Mr. Siddharth Khatana, Mr. Virendra Pratap Singh Charak and Mr. Shubra Prashar, Mr. Nikhil Verma, and Mr. Rishabh Jain, Mr. Farman Ali, Sr. Panel Counsel along with Ms. Usha Jomnal, Mr. Ajay Kohli and Ms. Dipika Prasad, Mr. Akshay Amritanshu and Mr. Samyak Jain, Ms. Uma Prasuna Bachu, Sr. Panel Counsel, Mr. Sandeep Vishnu, Sr. Panel Counsel, Mr. Anil Soni, CGSC with Mr. Devvrat Yadav, Mr. Lalit Mohan & Mr. Videh Vaish, Ms. Aaknsha and Abhay Gupta, Mr. Rishabh Sahu and Mr. Akhil Anand, Mr. Rishabh Sahu and Mr. Akhil Anand, Mr. Rishabh Sahu and Mr. Akhil Anand, Mr. Kushagra Singh, Mr. Abhishek Singh and Aalok Kumar, Mr. Gurtejpal Singh, Ms. Suditi and Ms. Aashna Arora, Mr. Mukul Singh, CGSC, Mr. T. Singhdev, Mr. Anum Hussain, Mr. Tanishq Srivastava, Mr. Aabhas Sukhramani, Mr. Bhanu Gulati, Ms. Ramanpreet Kaur and Abhijit Chakravarty, Mr. Rajendra Sahu and Mr. Akhil Anand, Mr. Saurabh Duggal, Mr. Tushar Pandey and Mr. Vaibhav Luthra, Mr. Tushar Pandey and Mr. Vaibhav Luthra, Mr. Anupam Singh and Mr. Nipun, Mr. Raghvendra Shukla, Senior Panel Counsel along with Anil Devlal, Mr. Pallav Saxena, Mr. Nishant Awana, Mr. Hardik Choudhary, Mr. Rajat Bhalla, Mr. Rakesh Kumar, CGSC along with Mr. Sunil, Mr. Himanshu Sinha, Mr. Bhuwan Dhoopar and Mr. Parash Biswal, Mr. Ruchir Mishra, Mr. Mukesh Kumar Tiwari, Ms. Reba Jeana Mishra and Mr. Sanjiv Kr. Saxena, Mr. Nitin Khanna, Mr. K.K. Jha Sr. Panel Counsel along with Mr. Avinash Singh, Mr. Vineet Dhanda, CGSC along with Mr. Shubham Prasad & Ms. Gurleen Kaur, Mr. Atul Krishna, Sr. Panel Counsel along with Mr. Jitendra Kumar, Mr. Atul Krishna, Sr. Panel Counsel, Ms. Arunima Dwivedi CGSC along with Ms. Pinky Pawar and Mr. Aakash Pathak, Mr. Sanjeev Singh, MS. Ridhi Pahuja, Mr. Dhruv Chawla and Ms. Garima Saxena, Mr. Vikrant N. Goyal, along with Ms. Ayushi Garg, Mr. Tesu Gupta, Mr. Sanjeev Singh, MS. Ridhi Pahuja, Mr. Dhruv Chawla and Ms. Garima Saxena, Mr. Pradeep Kumar Jha, Sr. Panel Counsel, Mr. Sanjeev Singh, Mr. Dhruv Chawla, Ms. Ridhi Pahuja & Mr. Dhruv Chawla, Ms. Tanija Bansal, Ms. Garima Saxena, Ms. Shobhana Takiar, Mr. Nitinjya Chaudhry, Senior Panel Counsel with Mr. Deepak, Mr. Vikas Sethi and Mr. Altamish, Ms. Aarzoo Aneja, Ms. Vanshita Gupta and Mr. Amit Kumar, Mr. Asit Kumar, Mr. Rohit Kumar along with Mr. Abhigyan Siddhant, Mr. Kushank Sindhu, Mr. Gazal Ghai and Mr. Anmol Singh, Mr. Jai Prakash, Sr. Panel Counsel along with Mr. Siddhant Gupta, Mr. Akash Vajpai, Senior Panel Counsel along with, Mr. Rudra Paliwal, Ms. Manisha Agrawal Narain, CGSC along with Mr. Sandeep Singh Somria, Mr. Manish Kumar Sr. Panel Counsel along with Mimansak Bhardwaj, Mr. Subhash Tanwar, CGSC along with Mr. Ashish Chaudhary, Mr. Manish Kumar Sr. Panel Counsel along with Mr. Abhigyan Siddhant and Mr. Rohit Kumar, Mr. Subhash Tanwar, CGSC along with Mr. Ashish Chaudhary, Mr. Dev. P. Bhardwaj and Anubha Bhardwaj, Mr. Ajay Kumar Panday, Mr. Santosh Kumar Raut and Mr. Abhishek Chaudhary, Ms. K.M. Monika and Mr. Krishna Kr. Sharma, Ms. Anushkaa Arora, Sr. Panel Counsel along with Ms. Jyoti and Ms. Seema Singh, Ms. Anam Siddiqui, Mr. Satya Ranjan Swain SPC and Mr. Kautilya Birat, Mr. Gagan Kumar along with Ms. Nishtha Kaura, Mr. Shashwat Roy, Ms. Sangeeta Sondhi along with Mr. Gorang Goyal, Mr. Kuber Dewan, Ms. Neeharika Agarwal, Ms. Trisha Raychaudhuri and Mr. Kaustav Srivastava, Mr. Neeraj Sr. Panel Counsel along with Mr. Sahay, Mr. Vedansh and Mr. Rudra, Mr. Manu Beri along with Mr. Prateek Kasliwal, Ms. Aditi Tomar, Mr. Ratna Dwivedi Dhingra and Mr. Bhrigu Dhami, Mr. Aman Naqvi, Adv. for Mr. Shadan Farashat, ASC, GNCTD, Mr. Siddharth, Mr. Abhishek, Ms. Abha Malhotra, Sr. Central Govt. Counsel along with Mr. Aditya Kapoor, Mr. Shashwat Roy & Mr. Sangeeta Sondhi, Mr. Rahul Malhotra and Ms. Himanshi Madan, Mr. Siddharth Khatana and Mr. Rishav Dubey.

JUDGMENT :

1. This batch of petitions, involving similar issues, is being decided by this common order.

2. The petition bearing No. W.P.(C) 9491/2020 is being treated as a lead matter, therefore, for the sake of convenience, the facts and pleadings are being referred therefrom. However, facts of individual cases would be referred, wherever so required.

3. In all these petitions, the reliefs claimed are almost similar except for small variations. The dominant relief claimed is to issue a writ in the nature of mandamus/certiorari or any other writ directing the respondent banks/financial institutions not to charge the pre-EMIs or full EMIs from the petitioners/alike homebuyers. It is also prayed that the respondent banks/financial institutions be directed not to charge the pre-EMIs/full EMIs till the possession is not delivered by the respondents builder/alike real estate developers to the petitioners with respect to their respective flats. For the sake of clarity prayer clause from the lead writ petition i.e. W.P. (C) 9491/2020 is being reproduced as under: -

    “i. Allow the present P

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                                          Judicial Analysis

                                          Orissa State Financial Corporation VS Narsingh Ch. Nayak - 2002 7 Supreme 535: Neutral holding on scope of High Court writ jurisdiction in contractual matters; no treatment indicators.

                                          Sardar Associates VS Punjab & Sind Bank - 2009 0 Supreme(SC) 1357: Neutral/affirmative points on RBI circulars, writ petitions, and mandamus; no treatment indicators.

                                          Central Bank Of India VS Ravindra - 2001 7 Supreme 764: Marked "Very important point"; presents settled interpretation of "principal sum" under Section 34 CPC; positively framed.

                                          BIKRAM CHATTERJI VS UNION OF INDIA - 2018 0 Supreme(SC) 2022: Neutral holding on court's authority in building construction matters; no treatment indicators.

                                          Maharashtra Chess Association VS Union of India - 2019 7 Supreme 313: Neutral holdings on jurisdiction clauses, writ powers, and alternate remedies; no treatment indicators.

                                          L. Chandra Kumar VS Union Of India - 1997 3 Supreme 147: Marked "VERY"; declares constitutional points on writ jurisdiction and tribunal exclusions as unconstitutional; presented as core holding.

                                          Mardia Chemicals LTD. Etc. VS Union Of IndiaEtc. - 2004 3 Supreme 243: Marked "Important point"; upholds constitutional validity of SARFAESI Act except one subsection; neutral/affirmative.

                                          V. K. Naswa VS Home Secretary, U. O. I. - 2012 1 Supreme 381: Describes "settled legal proposition" on court powers under Article 226; positively treated as settled law.

                                          State Of U. P. VS Bridge And Roof Company India LTD. - 1996 6 Supreme 586: Neutral holding on writ petitions for private contract disputes; no treatment indicators.

                                          Karnataka State Forest Industries Corporation VS Indian Rocks - 2008 8 Supreme 58: Neutral points on writ maintainability for arbitrary State action; no treatment indicators.

                                          Bikram chatterji VS Union Of India - 2019 5 Supreme 3: Numbered affirmative points on real estate accountability and public trust doctrine; no treatment indicators.

                                          Central Bureau of Investigation, Bank Securities & Fraud Cell VS Ramesh Gelli - 2016 2 Supreme 235: Neutral holding on public servant status under PC Act; no treatment indicators.

                                          Akshay N. Patel VS Reserve Bank of India - 2022 1 Supreme 238: Numbered points on trade rights, RBI powers, and proportionality; no treatment indicators.

                                          U. P. State Co-operative Land Development Bank LTD. VS Chandra Bhan Dubey - 1998 9 Supreme 535: Marked "Important Points"; affirmative on inquiry proceedings and State instrumentality; positively framed.

                                          ABL International LTD. VS Export Credit Guarantee Corporation of India LTD. - 2003 0 Supreme(SC) 1301: Neutral on writ discretion for factual disputes and insurance claims; no treatment indicators.

                                          Federal Bank LTD. VS Sagar Thomas - 2003 7 Supreme 22: Neutral holding barring writ against private bank's disciplinary action; no treatment indicators.

                                          State Of Bihar VS Jain Plastics And Chemicals LTD. - 2001 8 Supreme 334: Neutral on writs for contract breach disputes; no treatment indicators.

                                          P. MOHANRAJ VS SHAH BROTHERS ISPAT PVT. LTD. - 2021 2 Supreme 528: Numbered holdings on IBC moratorium and statutory interpretation; no treatment indicators.

                                          Managing Director, Orix Auto Finance (India) LTD. VS Jagmander Singh - 2006 1 Supreme 708: Marked "Important Point"; affirmative on hire-purchase repossession; positively framed.

                                          Supertech Limited VS Emerald Court Owner Resident Welfare Association - 2022 3 Supreme 232: Numbered points confirming demolition and statutory interpretation; no treatment indicators.

                                          Supriya Basu VS W. B. Housing Board - 2005 5 Supreme 371: Marked "Important point"; affirmative on writs against co-operative societies for statutory duties.

                                          National Highway Authority Of India VS Ganga Enterprises - 2003 6 Supreme 527: Numbered points on writs for contract disputes and earnest money; no treatment indicators.

                                          A. V. Venkateswaran, Collector Of Customs, Bombay VS Ramchand Sobhraj Wadhwani - 1961 0 Supreme(SC) 157: Neutral on customs tariff interpretation and mandamus remedies; no treatment indicators.

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