PIL Filed In Supreme Court Seeking Safeguarding Rights, Interests Of Homebuyers
A fresh plea has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking protection of the rights and financial interests of lakhs of homebuyers, once insolvency proceedings are initiated against real estate firms by banks and financial institutions.
The PIL, filed by lawyer Vivek Narayan Sharma, claimed that in the new Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016, the homebuyers are not included in the definition of “Financial Creditors or Operational Creditors”, but ranked the last in the list of creditors whose claims could be settled during the insolvency proceedings.
A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra, which is already seized of several petitions of homebuyers against real estate firms such as Unitech, Supertech and Amprali, would hear the PIL on October 6.
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Besides challenging the constitutionality of some provisions of the insolvency code, the plea has sought a direction that the homebuyers, who have not received possession of their booked dream homes, are also empowered to initiate “corporate insolvency resolution process” against the errant real estate firms.
It also said that the operation of the provisions of RERA (Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016), which favours homebuyers, should not be restricted by the Code.
Currently, the moment insolvency proceedings are initiated against a real estate firm, execution of enforceable decrees of courts and the consumer fora are rendered ineffective as they cannot be executed.
Moreover, no fresh cases can be pursued by hassled homebuyers against such firms.
The plea has also sought “forensic auditing” of real estate firms to ascertain the contributions of the homebuyers and safeguarding their invested money.
The forensic audit would ascertain whether the real estate firms, which have taken money from the homebuyers, have diverted these funds.
The principle view in filing the instant petition is that lakhs of homebuyers in thousands of projects can lose their life-savings, hard-earned money and moneys obtained through bank/institutional loans due to the operation of Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code.PIL
It raised the question as to how the liquidation value would be calculated for homebuyers where deliveries of flats have been delayed.
The plea has also sought a direction to provide a mechanism under the IB Code to calculate “the liquidation value for homebuyers, where deliveries of flats have been delayed, and further declare that the liquidation value would also account for interest on payments made to developers as envisaged in RERA.”
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