Homebuyers of Heartbeat City to file criminal cases against Amrapali

Ahead of the next visit of the high-powered ministers’ committee to the twin cities of Noida and Greater Noida, homebuyers of a stalled housing project, Amrapali Hearbeat City in Sector 108, Noida, on Sunday threatened to go on a weeklong agitation to press for possession of flats.

Arun Kalra, president of the association for buyers of the project, told City Spidey that there were about a hundred buyers who thronged the project site to decide the course of action. If the authorities did not help them, there would be an indefinite strike over the inordinate delay in handing over possession of flats, for which they had already made most of the payment. But for the present, the strike will be on from September 11 to September 20.

A high-powered committee put together by UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will visit Noida and Greater Noida on September 14 for a first-hand assessment of the problem faced by homebuyers.

Kalra said flat buyers also contemplated legal action against the developer for breach of trust and contract. First, they would press to file an FIR against the builder and concerned authorities from September 15, against builders whose project completion was delayed by over five years.

Homebuyers alleged that though the project was launched in 2011, the developer had managed to register the project with the Real Estate Regulatory Authority, as if it was started only in 2017. They questioned where these many years had gone. They said that Three Platinum Soft Tech P Ltd and Pebbles Prolease Pvt Ltd, which were project developing companies, told the regulatory authority that it was launched in 2017 and that it would be completed by 2023.

A homebuyer said that that they were supposed to get possession in 2014, as they had booked flats in 2011 and paid the maximum part of the flats' cost to the builder. But now the regulatory authority website showed that this was a new project and would be completed in August 2023.