ORDER

Raj Shekhar Attri, President—Greater Mohali Area Development Authority (in short the GMADA), is a Statutory Authority, which planned to develop a project named ECO City, Phase-II, New Chandigarh, Punjab and sell the plots/units therein to the general public and undertook to complete the development work in the stipulated period but it failed to do so. As such, the GMADA can also be held liable for deficiency in providing service to the complainant and other prospective buyers, who have invested in the said project, in view of principle of law laid down by the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India in Lucknow Development Authority Vs. M.K.Gupta, Civil Appeal No.6237 of 1990, decided on 5.11.1993, wherein it was held that when a statutory authority undertakes to construct building or allot houses or building sites to citizens of the State either as amenity or as benefit then it amounts to rendering of service and will be covered in the expression ‘service made available to potential users’ .

1. Instant complaint has been filed under section 47 of the Consumer Protection Act, 2019