Saturday, August 27, 2011

Magarpatta monopoly and DLF CCI penalty

Hi:
We are residents of Magarpatta city Pune. We read news of DLF monoply case with CCI and wish to inform you similar practice adopted by our famous builder Satish Magar and his company- Magarpatta Township development Company, address: Magarapatta City, Pune, under patronage of a powerful union minister and DyCM & CM of Maharastra.
The flats here were developed and promoted as 'walk to work' concept and most of the flats (10000) are purchased by the software engineers of Amdocs, Mphasis, Patni employees, as commercial buildings are in same area.  I don't say-owned as ownership is still retained by the Magarpatta company cum Satish Magar by indulging in malpractices for his monopoly in this concept of 'walk to work'.
Monopoly: This was the novel concept and so people purchased flats - unknowingly knowing that they will not have ownership & freeedom of India, as it should be.
Malpractice:
1. He has tri- party flat sale agreement with he and his company being 2 parties - signed by a single person- his power of attorney.
2.. We don't have freedom to sell house. We have to seek permission from Magarpatta company and need to pay 80,000 as admin fee. Previous he used to take it all in cash. Now he issues receipt as admin fee.
 b) Besides this admin fee, he takes 2Lacs as enhanced maintenance fee- thus 3Lacs in each sale of the flat as admin fee.
3. Builder asks to take persmission & pay Rs 4000 per  day for use of club house- for any get together.
4. Builder asks to pay 10,000 per year and 2500 as registration fee for use of Gymn, to the builder- inspite of it being mentioned as amenity.
 While we are paying for gym and swimming pool usage, he is using 10Lacs per year to give it to Poonawala foundation as charity, from our maintenance money- without our consent.
5. On top of it, he forces every flat purchaser/ tenant to have builder issued id card @100 else his guards harass in entry to flats.
6. He doesn't allow the use the notice boards and tears of notices unless Rs 200 is paid for each notice.
7. He runs his commercial library in our club house.
8. He has posted 3 guards at city entrance who don't allow newspaper hawker and milk vendors inside and he charges 10,000 from each of the 4 of his designated hawkers- who recover  money from us- as service charge for paper delivery.His single designated Milk vendor charge 2-4 per liter over the MRP.[ When it was 26/- per liter, we paid 30/-]
9. Parking outside of our home or office is 10/- per vehicle by his own people. Any parking on road side or against his guard wish cause penalty of 500/-. 6 Parking in crowded Magarpatta city's market place are reserved for him & unused. If we park  there or on side of road, his guards lock the vehicle with big locks and extort 500 for release.
10. He didn't care to give possession of flats, on time for his monopoly and I got possession of flats after one year of date on agreement.
11. All basement parking is seeping which is detrimental to the buildings.
12.  For his monopoly and being president of PBAP and his good connection, he doesn't plan to give ownership to us and perhaps with a plan that on fall of the building, he will rebuild & reselll the flats.
13. He too sold the parking (1.5Lacs) against law and against SupremeCourt order and overcharged for MSEB connection for 60000 per flat for his monoploy and stronghold.
14. To top it all, he doesn't allow to use the lift for even a suitcase for even 11th floor resident. This is total harassment for his mononpoly. His guards switch off the lift or issue 1000/- penalty for use of lift for any baggage.
15. With his clout, he is forcing companies in the campus to ask for Magarpatta id card, for overseas travel, if they live here ! eg Amdocs.
16. Tata indicom installed intercom but builder asked Tata not to give intercom directory to us, making intercom installation useless for us.
17. He spends lakhs on his company foundation day with no details on expenditure of our maintenance money and still no entry if I don't have his issued id card.
Please look into the issue of flat ownership,freedom to sell, use lift, gym, control on our maintenance money of 100 crores, with stop on wastage of our maintenance money on annual 10 Lacs donations, when I am paying 56 for choked drainage  or Rs 2000 for allowing me to come out of house, in case of malfunctioning main door lock locks me in the house.
Thanks
Magarpatta Citizens