Property dispute: Dealers issued notice for not fulfilling promise

LAHORE:

A consumer court on Monday issued a notice to two property dealers for selling a piece of property to a person other than the one they had received token money. The petitioner has asked the respondents to pay Rs30,250,000 by January 29.

Aleem Akbar Butt said Zubair Aslam and Muhammad Akmal of R A Real Estate DHA Phase I had showed him a plot in DHA. They assured him that there was no dispute over the property. Butt said he paid them Rs100,000 token money. The property dealers said they would pay Butt double the amount if they failed to provide title documents or back-tracked on the deal.

Butt said he gave the dealers pay orders for Rs 3,400,000 as partial payment. 80 days later the respondents had still not provided him with title documents or returned the ‘doubled’ token money. He said he learnt that the respondents had sold the plot to somebody else.

He then filed a case asking the respondents to be ordered to pay Rs200,000 double token money, interest at 25 per cent per annum from August 22, 2013 to the date on which the double token money would be paid, Rs 30,000,000 as damages and Rs 50,000 for the counsel fee. The respondents were not available for their comments.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 7^th, 2014.