pune in a series of orders over a couple of months in late 2017 and early 2018 the punebench of the maharashtra real estate regulatory authority maharera disposed of more than four dozen petitions after the developer agreed to pay the compensation for delayed possession he had also agreed to complete the construction and hand over possession in two years from the original date of completion which was end of 2016the new agreed upon possession date was 2018end however not only did the developer not pay the agreed compensation to the flat buyers but he also missed his own deadlines twice now in mid2019 the buyers are faced with the prospect of either restarting the entire application process or going to the consumer courttoi is refraining from naming the developer in this case as the buyers are trying to negotiate another outofcourt settlement with him before they are forced to take the longwinding and uncertain legal option however this is not an isolated casewhile the maharera in its latest statistics claims a 64 petition disposal rate advocates fighting the rera cases say only a handful of the orders are actually implementedadvocate harshal jadhav a property lawyer said many developers do not pay the ordered compensation amount to the complainants not delivering on an undertaking given in court is a case of perjury but the buyers dont file appeals because the developers keep giving them hope and then the time for appeals lapses he saidanuj puri the chairman of anarock property consultants too added that maharera has not been as effective as was hoped at least not in cases where compensation was awarded by the rera but not dispensed by the developerit is true that the rera has not emerged uniformly as a singlewindow clearance of justice and grievance redressal if a customer has to suffer in silent agony or is forced to approach the consumer court despite a favourable ruling by the rera it sends out a discouraging signal about the power of an act that was meant to be a single remedy for all ills related to new housing purchases he saidnot only are the orders being ineffective but they are also getting diluted across the country serious developerfavouring dilutions of the clauses that were meant to protect the buyers interests have taken place delay in project execution because of the dilution of rera and the overall signal such dilutions send to the market will dampen buyers confidence puri saidwhile disposing of such cases vijay satbir singh member1 wrote in view of the said undertaking submitted by the respondent the authority feels that nothing survives in this complaint hence the complaint stands disposedof in view of the samea text and whatsapp message sent to gautam chatterjee the chairperson of maharera seeking his views on what can be done to overcome this noncompliance of orders remained unanswered till the time of going to press