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NATIONAL CONSUMER DISPUTES REDRESSAL COMMISSION
NEW DELHI
 
FIRST APPEAL NO. 632 OF 2015
 
(Against the Order dated 06/01/2014 in Complaint No. 247/2011 of the State Commission Maharashtra)
1. MUCHHALA INTERNATIONAL & ANR.
32, YUSUF BUILDING, 3RD FLOOR, VEER NARIMAN ROAD, FORT,
MUMBAI-400023
2. MR. ARUNKUMAR MUCHHALA,
PARTNER OF M/S. MUCHHALA, INTERNATIONA, AMAR MAHAL, NEAR CHANDAN THEATER, JUHU,
MUMBAI-400049
MAHARASHTRA
...........Appellant(s)
Versus 
1. SAIBABA TOWERS CO-OP. HOUSING SOCIETY LTD.
BY ITS CHAIRMAN, MR. NITIN PANCHAMIYA, ADD : AT N .DUTTA MARG, BEHIND D.N. NAGAR POLICE STATION, ANDHERI WEST,
MUMBAI-400053
MAHARASHTRA
...........Respondent(s)

BEFORE: 
 HON'BLE MR. PREM NARAIN,PRESIDING MEMBER

For the Appellant :
Mr. J.A.Udaipuri Advocate with
Mr. Amit Khurana, Advocate
For the Respondent :
Mr. Bhaskar Vali, Advocate

Dated : 08 Feb 2018
ORDER

This appeal has been filed by Mauchhala International & Anr.  against the order dated 6.01.2014 of the State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, Maharashtra (in short ‘the State Commission’) passed in complaint No.CC/11/247.

2.      Brief facts of the case are that one complaint was filed by respondents/complainant against the appellants/opposite parties (being OP Nos.1 & 2) before the State Commission, vide complaint No.247 of 2011, alleging deficiency in services on the part of opposite parties on various counts such as for not providing occupancy certificate & building completion certificate from Municipal Corporation of Greater Bombay to the complainant and also alleging non-compliance of statutory obligations by opposite parties by non execution of conveyance deed in favour of complainant society to transfer the rights title and interest. On 06.03.2013 complainant was ordered to be proceeded ex-parte against the appellants/opposite parties (being OP Nos.1 & 2) by State Commission.  On 06.01.2014, the State Commission passed ex-parte final order against the appellants/opposite parties as under:-

“(1)  Complaint is partly allowed.

(2)  The opponent builder developer are directed to obtain occupation and completion certificate of the building from the competent authorities within a period of three months from the date of this order and hand over the same to the complainant society.

(3)  Opponent builder developers are directed to execute conveyance deed to transfer title, rights, interest in the property in favour of the complainant society within a period of three months from the date of this order.

(4)  Opponents are further directed to pay to the complainant society amounts as detailed below with interest thereon effective from 22.09.2011 till realization within 45 days from the date of this order:

(a)  Rs.65,05,665/- as amount of reimbursement of property taxes paid from 01.4.2002 till 31.03.2011.

(b) Rs.5,34,093/- as reimbursement of excess water charges for a period from 21.02.2002 to 31.03.2011 (being 50% of the total amount of Rs.10,68,185/-).

(5)     Opponents to bear their own costs and pay to the complainant an amount of Rs.50,000/- as costs of litigation.

(c)   Rest of the prayers of the complainant society stand rejected as not specifically granted.”

3.      MA/14/263 (delay) was filed along with condonation of delay for setting aside the ex-parte order  dated 06.01.2014 by appellants/opposite parties (being OP No.1 & 2) before the State Commission. Appellants/opposite parties (being OP No.1 & 2) then withdrew the MA/14/263 (delay) in view of decision of Apex Court in the case of Rajeev Hitendra Pathak Vs. Achyut Kashinath Karekar –(2011) 9 SCC 541= 2012 (1) BOM. C.R.-160 whereby it has been held that District Fora and State Commissions have not been given any power to review their own orders.  The State Commission vide its order dated 23.02.2015 allowed withdrawal of this application.

 4.     Hence the present appeal.

5.      Heard the learned counsel for both the parties and perused the record.

6.      Learned counsel for the appellants

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