ghaziabad homebuyers seem to have once against been left to fend for themselves in the real estate wilderness of ghaziabad and risk investing their hardearned money in projects where building plans might have been violated in april the ghaziabad development authority gda had issued an advisory to the revenue department which made completion certificates a document that ensures there has been no violation of building plans in a group housing project mandatory however homebuyers have alleged that the decision is being violated and sale deeds are being given without the completion certificate previously hundreds of homebuyers purchased and registered unauthorized flats under the impression that the registration ensured the legality of a property this essentially meant that even if a developer sells an apartment he couldnt get the deal registered at the subregistrar office until he provides a complete certificate gda vice chairman santosh yadav had said that the move would help plug problems of coordination between the gda and the revenue department but things seem to have returned to their original form with sale deeds being executed by the subregistrar ghaziabad without obtaining and attaching the competition certificate as deemed necessary by the gda in their order to the revenue department on 27 april 2013 moreover the uttar pradesh apartment promotion of construction ownership maintenance act 2010 has a provision outlining that an apartment may be transferred by the promoter to any person only after obtaining the completion certificate from the prescribed sanctioned authority concerned as per building bylaws the issue was brought up by alok kumar who represents the federation of apartment owners association of ghaziabad faao when he filed a pil in the allahabad high court we have written a letter to the district magistrate reporting the gross violation of the order by the gda in clear violation of the law a number of cases have come to us where homeowners have been given possession of incomplete homes he said in the letter kumar alleged that the sub registrar has begun issuing sale deedsub deed without attaching a copy of the completion certificate and declaration of the project in question when asked about the issue officials said that they will investigate the allegations but sources in the ghaziabad administration said that the order has been unofficially abandoned due to a severe dip in revenue following the order by the gda