MUMBAI: Bombay high court on Tuesday issued non-bailable warrants against builder Jayant Mehta and directed the Mumbai police commissioner to produce him on Wednesday morning. Justice Shahrukh Kathawala passed the orders after the developer failed to appear before court despite previous orders. The bench was hearing petitions filed by Khambhati Modh Vanik Samaj, a public charitable trust, which had entered into a development agreement with Bhakti Enterprises, run by Mehta, to redevelop a property in Kandivli.
“Prima facie, I am satisfied that Jayant Mehta has cheated the petitioner trust, who is owner of the property; the tenants in the 40 tenements; and the flat purchasers who have paid him on the basis of his representation that he will provide them ownership flats,” the judge observed in an earlier order.
“He also indulged in double sales of flats and has thereby put everyone in difficulty. He has not paid tenants compensation in lieu of temporary alternate accommodation, because of which they are virtually on the streets,” the court had said.
The judge had said it was necessary to get details from Mehta about “amounts he has received from several individuals by promising to provide ownership flats to them, and as to where the amounts have been deposited by him and also particulars of his assets”.
Advocate Vishal Kanade, counsel for the samaj, said the trust had cancelled the development agreement with Mehta as he defaulted. Tenants and flat purchasers have filed first information reports against Mehta. They also intervened in the petition filed by the trust. “The developer accepted multiple bookings for the same flat and cheated flat purchasers. Despite court orders, he failed to remain present,” said advocate Anand Jondhale. A sessions court had rejected Mehta’s plea for anticipatory bail and his appeal against the order is pending before the HC.
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My father had booked a flat with Shree Shubh builders - Govind Samani for their project "THE ADDRESS" (now Ananda Residency) in borivali west. My father invested his life savings and took a bank loan to pay for this. Paradigm Realty has taken over the project so now it's called Ananda Residency. Mr. Parth Mehta of Paradigm Realty claims that he is not liable to give us a flat or any money as he took over the project from SRA and not Shree Shubh builders. However, Mr. Samani had submitted the list of home buyers who had invested in this project to Paradigm and SRA and other such bodies. So why didn't SRA take into consideration the previous investors. The paperwork done by Paradigm Realty looks so suspicious. The papers aren't in order. My dad since 2010 has been running from pillar to post because of this investment. Are Paradigm Realty and SRA hand in glove in this cheating case and scamming investors? We're trying to get in touch with other victims for this same project.
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