BENGALURU: With Fire Department filing an FIR with the Bharati Nagar police station for going ahead with the project without clearance from them, RERA-K has recently ordered Sobha Limited to register the project of Sobha City in Hegde Nagar under it before September 19.
RERA has also ordered that the promoter applies for water supply with the BWSSB. The order was delivered in connection with a complaint filed by Sobha City Bengaluru Buyers Association.
“Immediately register all the blocks of Sobha City under Section 4 of the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016, except Block 4,” the order stated.
Buyers had approached RERA alleging numerous anomalies. Ameya Usgaonkar, a petitioner, told TNIE, “The project has partial occupancy for the 1,500 houses which is illegal. We do not have a Cauvery water connection despite paying for it. The houses are mostly occupied at the owners’ risk. The Fire Department NOC is yet to be obtained, and the department has filed an FIR.”
Subroto Chakraborty, who had paid Rs 1.25 crore for his apartment, said that the Karnataka HC has declared partial occupancy certification as illegal in 2012.“The project has come up near a burial ground about which we were kept in the dark while buying,” he said.
MS Shankar, General Secretary of the Forum for People’s Collective Efforts, questioned, “Why is RERA not penalising for non-registration? I think the penalty is mandatory under Section 59 of its Act.”