Consumer forum awards three-year jail term Unitech chairman Ramesh Chandra

NEW DELHI: The Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission in Chandigarh has sentenced Unitech chairman Ramesh Chandra and two managing directors of the company to three years imprisonment for “willfully” disobeying its order to refund money to complainant Jagdish Singh and others. In its order dated January 11, the commission said Chandra and managing directors Sanjay Chandra and Ajay Chandra will serve three years each in jail and pay a fine of Rs 10,000 each.A Unitech spokesman, however, said “the matter has already been resolved”. The commission had on January 21 last year ordered Unitech to refund Rs 41,61,383 to Singh and other complainants for its failure to deliver residential apartments in its Gardens project at Uniworld City in Sector 97 of Mohali. est per annum on the sum. Besides, the commission asked Unitech to pay Rs 1.5 lakh for “causing mental agony and physical harassment” to the complainants as well as escalation in prices, and Rs 20,000 as cost of litigation. Unitech failed to comply with the commission’s order after which the complainants approached the commission again. Unitech then gave the complainants a cheque for Rs 10 lakh. The complainants, however, said the company still owed them Rs 62,86,220. Unitech then gave an undertaking that it will pay Rs 10 lakh every month starting August 2015. In September, the complainants filed another application, saying the company has not abided to the commission’s earlier