SC asks Chintels to pay rent to owners in unsafe towers

Nearly two years after a roof collapse at Gurugram's Chintels Paradiso society, the Supreme Court on Thursday ordered that the 125 residents who have opted for reconstruction of the other towers in the society declared unsafe shall be entitled to a fixed rent for an alternate accommodation by the developer from the time when reconstruction commences till its completion.

- Abraham Thomas

A safety audit of the buildings, carried out by IIT Delhi, had found five out of the nine towers in the society to be structurally unsafe. The court was hearing a petition by 188 residents seeking a probe into the incident that took place on February 10, 2022, and demanded a safety audit of their buildings fearing a repeat of the incident.

the Central: of Investigation (CBI) had already taken up the probe in January last year and the safety audit was conducted, the bench of justices Hrishikesh Roy and Prashant Kumar Mishra was required to only examine the issue of alternate accommodation for the residents who opted to continue in the society provided that the builder reconstructs it at the same site.