New Delhi, Aug. 16 -- A Delhi-based elderly couple, aged 80 and 73, has finally secured a settlement after an 18-year ordeal over a flat they purchased in 2007 but never received possession of.

The couple had invested Rs 35 lakh of their life savings to buy a 3 BHK unit in a residential project at Tronica City, Ghaziabad.

Despite the lapse of 15 years from the agreed handover date, the builder neither fully developed the project nor delivered the possession of the flat.

In 2023, after Delhi Police declined to register an FIR, they approached the Delhi Court through Fidelegal Advocates & Solicitors.

Representing the couple, Advocate Sumit Gehlot argued that the builder never intended to deliver the flat and instead misled them into sig...