Har Prakash Chandna vs. Unitech Ltd

COURT NO.1

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS

Civil Appeal No(s).10851/2016

ARVIND KUMAR GUPTA

Appellant(s)

VERSUS

UNITECH LTD. . & ORS.

Respondent $(s)$

([MR. PAWANSHREE AGRAWAL (A.C.) ADVOCATE 1 and IA No.23393/2018impleading party and IA No.23396/2018-CLARIFICATION/DIRECTION)

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- 6 - Mr. Deepak Goel, AOR Mr. Rahul Shyam Bhandari, AOR For Respondent(s)/ Mr. B.P. Patil, Sr. Adv. Applicant (s) Mr. V. Balachandran, Advv. Mr. K.R. Vasudevan, Adv. Mr. Siddharth Naidu, Adv. for M/s. K.S.N. & Co., Advs. Mr. Rajiv Nanda, Adv. Mr. T.A. Khan, Adv. Mr. B.V. Balaramdas, Adv. Mr. M.L. Lahoty, Adv. Mr. Paban K. Sharma, Adv. Mr. Anchit Sripat, Adv. Mr. Himanshu Shekhar, ,Adv. Mr. Saurabh Kripal, Adv. Ms. Snehil Sonam, Adv. Dr. Sumant Bharadwaj, Adv. Ms. Mridula Ray Bharadwaj, Adv. Mr. B. Ragunath, Adv. Mr. N.C. Kavitha, Adv. Mr. P. Sriram, Adv. Mr. Anand Sanjay M. Nuli, Adv. Mr. Dharm Singh, Adv. For M/s. Nuli & Nuli, Advs. Mr. S.S. Ray, Adv. Mr. Amitabh Chauterbadi, Adv. Mr. Vaibhav Gulia, Adv. Ms. Rakhi Ray, Adv. Mrs. Prabha Swami, Adv. Ms. Divya Swami, Adv. Mr. Nikhil Swami, Adv. Mr. Aneesh Mittal, Adv. Mr. Kaushik Choudhury, Adv. Mr. Siddharth Jain, Adv. Mr. T.N. Durga Prasad, Adv. Mr. Akarsh Garg, Adv.

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Mr. Saurabh Jain, Adv. Mr. P.K. Jain, Adv. Mr. Partha Sil, Adv. Mr. Tavish B. Prasad, Adv. Mr. Ishan Sanghi, Adv. Ms. Sanya Talwar, Adv. Mr. Prabhat Ranjan Raj, Adv. Mr. Amit Dhaua, Adv. Ms. Apoorva Malik, Adv. Mr. Shantanu Sagar, Adv. Ms. Kirti R. Mishra, Adv. Ms. Apurva Upmanyu, Adv. Mr. Gopal Jha, Adv. Mr. N.K. Sharma, Adv. Mr. Shiv Ram Pandey, Adv. Mr. Chandan Kr. Mandal, aDv. Mr. Tara V. Ganju, Adv. Mr. Abhik Kumar, Adv. Mr. Devendra Singh, Adv. Mr. Anant K. Vatsya, Adv. Mr. Narsingh N. Rai, Adv. Mr. Rashi Bansal, Adv. Mr. Khomaja Siddiqui, Adv. Mr. Ashwini Kumar, Adv. Mr. Arup Sinha, Adv. Mr. Akshat Agarwal, Adv. Mr. Prateek Gupta, Adv. Mr. R. Satish, Adv. Mr. Ajay jain, Adv. Mr. Jinendra Jain, Adv. Mr. Pranay Jain, Adv. Mr. Brijesh Yadav, Adv. Mr. Chirag Aneja, Adv. Mr. Vishnu Sharma, Adv. Ms. Sonika Tyagi, Adv.

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Mr. Deepak Tyagi, Adv. Mr. K.K. Gautam, Adv. Mr. R.P. Goyal, Adv. Mr. Anant Bhushan, Adv. Mr. Awanish Kumar, Adv. Mr. S.K. Pandey, Adv. Mr. Chandras W., Adv. Mr. Anshul Rai, Adv. Mr. Ruchit Duggar, Adv. Ms. Vibha Mahajan, Adv. Ms. Upasana Nath, Adv. Mr. narendra Prasad, Adv. Mr. Anil Punj, Adv. Mr. Krishna Yadav, Adv. Mr. Krishna Kumar Singh, Adv. Mr. Vijay Kumar Sharma, Adv. Mr. Aditya Kumar Sinha, Adv. Mr. Vivek Kumar Singh, Adv. Mr. Narendra Singh Yadav, Adv. Mr. Faheem Shah, Adv. Mr. Vaibhav Suri, Adv. Ms. Garima Prasad, Adv. Mr. Devesh Kumar Tripathi, Adv. Mr. Shish pal Laler, Adv. Mr. Sonit Sinhmar, Adv. Mr. Akshat Shrivastava, Adv. Mrs. Pooja Shrivastava, Adv. Mr. Indrajeet Yadav, Adv. Mr. Robin R. David, Adv. Mr. Chitranshul A. Sinha, Adv. Ms. Sonali Khanna, Adv. for M/s. Dua Associates, Advs. Mr. Gyanendra Kumar, Adv. Ms. Jyoti Dastidar, Adv. Ms. Vanshika Mohta, Adv. for M/s. Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, Advs. .

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Ms. Shobha, Adv. Mr. Satyam Jyoti Saikia, Adv. Mr. Sourav Roy, Adv.

UPON hearing the counsel the Court made the following O R D E R

S.L.P.(Crl.)Nos.5978-5979/2017 etc.

In view of the order dated 29th January 2018, Mr. Ramachandran, Managing Director, M/s. Omshakthy Agencies (Madras) Private Limited has appeared in Court. It is his submission that he has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on behalf of the company with M/s. Unitech Ltd. and is prepared to deposit Rs.90 crores by 31st March 2018 out of Rs.400 crores for which the MOU has been signed. Let him deposit Rs.90 crores on or before 31st March 2018 before this Court failing which he will liable for contempt of this Court.

As far as I.A.Nos.4540/2018 and 4543/2018 are concerned, Mr. M.L. Lahoty, learned counsel appearing for the applicant(s) would submit that the there are three projects, namely, Unitech Amber; Unitech Burgundy; and Unitech Willows which have been launched and if they are auctioned, M/s. Unitech Ltd. will have a surplus amount of Rs.1000 crores after satisfying all the dues. It is also submitted by him that there are persons who are interested to take possession of their flats in those projects.

Mr. Pawanshree Agrawal, learned Amicus Curiae would submit that if the persons are interested in taking possession of the flats he shall remove their names from the list of consumers seeking refund and put them in the category of persons expressing their intention to have the possession of the flats.

Mr. Ranjit Kumar, learned senior counsel appearing for the petitioners in S.L.P.(Crl.)Nos.5978-5979/2017 prays for a week's time to obtain instructions in the matter and file reply to the abovementioned applications.

Call on 05th March 2018.

As far as the civil appeals listed today are concerned, they are de-tagged and shall be listed on 23rd February 2018 along with C.A.Nos.17008/2017 and 16858/2017.

In the meantime, Mr. Pawanshree Agrawal, shall compute the principal sum due to the appellants with the assistance of the counsel appearing for the appellants in respective appeals and serve a copy to Mr. Bhandari, learned counsel assisting Mr. Ranjit Kumar, learned senior counsel appearing on behalf of M/s. Unitech Ltd.

We have so directed as the persons who are entitled to the amount as per the judgment and order passed by the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) can be given some amount out of the amount that has been deposited before this Court.

(Subhash Chander) (H.S. Parasher)

AR-cum-PS Assistant Registrar