Unitech home buyers take fight to PM’s door
A group of 200 homebuyers from several projects of Unitech tried to march towards the Prime Minister’s residence on Sunday to protest the Centre’s decision of not taking over the company’s board, but were stopped midway by police. The buyers demanded that the Centre take over the board, but with permission from the Supreme Court. They submitted a memorandum at the PM residence and claimed they had been called for a hearing on Monday. Vivek Tyagi, a buyer of the Anthea Floors project in Gurgaon Sector 70, said around 100 homebuyers from Gurgaon were part of the team that submitted the memorandum, signed by the core committees of eight buyers’ associations and even former employees of Unitech who claimed they had not been paid ever since the arrest of the developers. Over 20,000 homebuyers who have invested in 61 Unitech projects across NCR are yet to get their flats. A group of buyers had lodged a complaint with the corporate affairs ministry, which, in turn, had approached the National Company Law tribunal in December last year with an offer to take over Unitech Ltd. The tribunal had allowed the takeover and asked the Centre to appoint a new board of directors to refund the homebuyers and carry out pending construction work.
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