Developer Termination Upheld for Inordinate Delay in Slum Redevelopment: SC

Yash Developers Vs Harihar Krupa Co-Operative Housing Society Limited & Ors. (Supreme Court of India) The Supreme Court considered an appeal challenging the Bombay High Court’s judgment upholding the order of the Apex Grievance Redressal Committee (AGRC) terminating the appellant’s appointment as developer under a slum rehabilitation project in Borivali, Mumbai. The appellant had been appointed as developer in 2003 by a co-operative housing society of slum dwellers. As the project remained substantially incomplete for over sixteen years, the AGRC terminated the development agre...