Consumer Court orders Dreamz Infra to refund Rs 12.5 lakh to buyer for faking documents

 

When Veenish Kumar realised that Dreamz Infra India Pvt. Ltd, a company whose founders were based out of HSR Layout failed to furnish proper land documents to him, he asked for a refund. When nothing happened, he approached the consumer court. Recently, the consumer court ruled that the builder pay up Rs 12.5 lakh deposit money to Veenish and Rs 10,000 as compensation for all the trouble.

The story goes that Dreamz Infra had not given Veenish the proper papers on the land they had allotted to him. This was revealed by Veenish’s lawyers who found that the property documents were fake. Heeding to the advice, Veenish cancelled his booking order with Dreamz.

In court, he alleged that the company agreed that the documents given to him about their project called Dreamz GK Saakaar were false. However, he also contended that the builders refused to give back his money. What’s more, they apparently threatened him with dire consequences if he does not stop asking for a refund.

Left with no other option, Veenish approached the Bangalore Second Additional District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum. Hearing his arguments and finding enough proof to fault the company, the court ordered Dreamz Infra India to repay Veenish’s money in addition to Rs. 10,000 as penalty.

However, whether he will get his money remains to be seen as Dreamz Infra is mired in controversy for the last two years. So far, over 18,000 people have come forward to accuse the company of cheating them of their money ranging from Rs 1 lakh-60 lakh. And it is not just Dreamz Infra (set up in 2011) that the founder Sachin Naik is accused of. He allegedly scammed people under the name of two other companies, TGS Construction set up in 2013 and Gruha Kalyan in 2014. Sachin Naik is also known by other names: Sumanth Kumar Das and Yogesh Choudhary.

Said to have high-level political links, Sachin apparently escaped for years before 1000 victims came together under the banner of Ekadanta Association and conducted four separate protests outside the CID office early this year. Chargesheeted and arrested, Sachin is out on bail, and so is his former wife Disha Chowdhary. However, his other wives Mandeep Kaur and Mazumdar Shathaparni are still absconding, according to police sources.

Naik and the others are accused of forgery, cheating and violating the provisions of the Karnataka Protection of Interest of Depositors in Financial Establishment Act 2004.