has ended up servicing a huge loan said in this particular project the dda has donned three different hats of a joint venture partner of a regulator and also the body that is impeding speedy delivery of flats to owners the apartments lie unattended with broken doors and windows that let in dogs and birds they are in a state of disrepair since the end of the games in october last year some of them are stores for furniture used by athletes whats more technical experts from the central building research institute roorkee had recently said that the flats are so shoddily built that their lifespan may not be more than 20 years as per the contract with the builder buyers were to get possession of the apartments about four months from the close of the games emaar mgf should have got possession for repair within a month and then in three months buyers should have been handed the flats the completion certificate to be issued by the dda is still pending a recent audit of the village ordered by lieutenant governor tejendra khanna found there were deviations from the sanctioned plans the dda has said the complex has 17 flats that have been constructed illegally an emaar mgf spokesperson said the 17 flats have been demolished emaar mgf is keen to not let this be a reason for any delay in handover to the flat owners the current impasse is affecting the maintenance of the games village we need some time to refurbish the games village but we are till date awaiting access to the flats the onset of monsoon could delay this work further however we are hopeful that the dda will give us the completion certificate so that monsoon does not do any damage to the unoccupied flatsapartments a dda spokesperson said we will give the completion certificate once we get the revised plans from emaar mgf tally them with the ddas original plans and reassess the exact floor area ratio after this emaar mgf will need a clearance from the delhi urban arts commission to hand over the flats to the owners about rs 12 crore of our money is stuck here the problem is that no one wants to bell the cat so we thought we should move court said rajiv luthra managing partner of law firm luthra luthra whose members have bought three flats in the village over 100 of these buyers have now formed an association commonwealth games village allottees welfare association and filed a writ against the dda in which both the dda and the builder emaar mgf are respondents mathur a former bureaucrat said that following reports about the property in early january he and some other buyers decided to take up the matter since no government official was taking any action as word spread about 30 buyers met and decided to set up an association to take the matter forward the association now has about 100