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Relief for Amrapali buyers, Supreme Court directs banks to release balance loan amount

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Byhindustantimes.com | Edited by: Amit Chaturvedi
Jun 10, 2020 12:37 PM IST

In December last year, the top court had asked the Centre to inform it as to how much time it will take to decide on application for financing Amrapali’s stalled projects from the newly launched Rs 25,000 crore stress fund for the real estate sector.

In a major relief to Amrapali homebuyers, the Supreme Court on Wednesday directed banks to release balance amount of sanctioned loans to them, even those which have been declared Non-Performing Assets or NPA.

In this file picture from May 2017, home buyers of Amrapali HeartBeat, protest inside Amrapali Project Sector 107, in Noida.(Virendra Singh Gosain/HTFile Photo)
In this file picture from May 2017, home buyers of Amrapali HeartBeat, protest inside Amrapali Project Sector 107, in Noida.(Virendra Singh Gosain/HTFile Photo)

The bench of Justices Arun Mishra and UU Lalit passed the order keeping in view the current situation where the housing projects have come to a standstill due to lack of funds. The bench has kept the next hearing of the case on Wednesday, June 17, for passing further directions with regard to additional suggestions received from court appointed receiver and senior advocate R Venkatramani who is helping with the execution of projects.

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After the court order, the banks need to restructure the loans.

At the last hearing on June 3, SBICAP Ventures, which manages the government sponsored stress fund for the real estate sector, had told the Supreme Court that it was ready to fund the stalled projects of embattled real estate firm.

The SBICAP Ventures told the top court that it would create a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) with court receiver on board and would appoint a Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to take over the construction of seven stalled projects.

Currently, the construction of stalled projects of Amrapali is being handled by National Buildings Construction Corporation (NBCC).

In December last year, the top court had asked the Centre to inform it as to how much time it will take to decide on application for financing Amrapali’s stalled projects from the newly launched Rs 25,000 crore stress fund for the real estate sector.

The Centre has submitted that the State Bank of India has been appointed as a fund manager and it will disburse the amount based on certain norms after an application is made by a real estate entity.

The apex court in its July 23, last year verdict had cracked its whip on errant builders for breaching the trust reposed by home buyers and ordered cancellation of the registration of the Amrapali Group under real estate law RERA, and ousted it from prime properties in the NCR by nixing the land leases.

It had directed the state-run NBCC to complete the stalled projects of the Amrapali Group, whose directors Anil Kumar Sharma, Shiv Priya and Ajay Kumar are behind bars on the top court’s order.

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