Mohali IT City Plot Owner Loses Claim For 941 Day Delay मोहाली IT City प्लॉट मालिक का 941 दिन की देरी का दावा खारिज ਮੋਹਾਲੀ IT City ਪਲਾਟ ਮਾਲਕ ਦਾ 941 ਦਿਨ ਦੀ ਦੇਰੀ ਦਾ ਦਾਅਵਾ ਰੱਦ

Punjab RERA has refused delay interest to an IT City plot owner who was allotted his plot more than two and a half years after the date in GMADA's letter of intent. The order of 10 November 2026 treats the allotment letter, and not that earlier letter, as the contract that counts.

The owner had paid ₹56.02 lakh for a 256.66 sq yd plot in Sector 83 Alpha. He sought 18% interest for a delay he counted at 941 days, a claim he had earlier valued at ₹25.98 lakh. The authority's chairman dismissed the complaint as "devoid of any merits". Plots now on sale in the scheme are on our IT City page.

GMADA's letter promised possession in a year

GMADA launched the 750-plot IT City scheme on 18 July 2016, and the complainant was successful in the draw that September. His letter of intent (LOI) of 2 May 2017, at a tentative price of ₹20,000 a sq yd, said possession would be handed over within one year.

The allotment letter naming his plot came on 29 December 2020. He took possession, obtained a no dues certificate in March 2021 and applied for building plan approval that July. The conveyance deed was executed on 3 March 2023. The complaint reached RERA a month later.

An LOI holder is not yet an allottee

GMADA said the 256.66 sq yd plots could not be developed until the state environment authority issued an amended clearance. That came on 28 March 2019 and the draw for plot numbers followed on 20 December 2019. The pandemic then held up the allotment letters. The authority accepted the explanation and found nothing to show GMADA had held back possession on purpose.

It held that an LOI only conveys an intention to allot and is not an agreement for sale. The complainant became an allottee on the date of his allotment letter, so no interest under the Real Estate Act could be claimed for the period before it.

His own conduct counted against him. The allotment letter allowed him to refuse the plot within 30 days and asked him to take possession within 90. The order records no letter, email or reminder from him about the delay until a consumer complaint filed on 31 January 2023.

GMADA also argued that a plot allotted at ₹20,000 a sq yd is now worth about ₹75,000 a sq yd. The complainant disputed the figure but placed nothing on record to show the value had not risen.

Two earlier orders did not help

The complainant said two earlier orders of the authority against GMADA, both upheld on appeal, settled the matter in his favour. The chairman replied that those cases had not examined the difference between an applicant and an allottee or the legal effect of an LOI. He relied instead on a May 2026 order of another bench in the IT City project, which also held that the LOI was not an allotment.

GMADA lost on two points. An arbitration clause in the allotment letter does not keep a dispute away from RERA. The consumer complaint had been dismissed only because the claim fell outside the state commission's money limit, which did not bar a fresh case.

The order also records that GMADA's status as a statutory body does not exempt it from the Act.

Related reading

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- Plots In Mohali

Sources: The sources we use are listed on our Editorial Sources page.

This report is based on the Punjab RERA order in GC No. 0085 of 2023UR as published on the authority's website and read on 13 November 2026. It is not legal advice, and the order turns on the facts of one complaint.