Mohali, July 13 -- The District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission has directed a developer to refund Rs.25.73 lakh with interest and pay Rs.2.5 lakh as compensation and litigation costs in a case where a homebuyer waited over 14 years for the possession of his residential plot in Sunny Enclave after paying more than three-fourths of the sale price.

The commission comprising president SK Aggrawal and its members Paramjeet Kaur and Lt Col JS Bath held that Bajwa Developers and its managing director failed to prove that the plot was ready for possession, while the buyer established that despite repeated representations and a legal notice, he did not receive the plot.

The complainant, a Bathinda resident, entered into an agreement to p...