In a case of builders Supertech Ltd planning and building extra residential towers in a plot by which, as per current residents of other towers, light and air was being cut out, the builders had moved the Supreme Court against an Allahabad High Court judgment which had said that the 40-storey towers will have to demolished.

The new towers, claimed the current residents, were not as per plan provided to them when they had bought flats in earlier towers. The residents’ association – the Emerald Court Owner Resident Welfare Association – are defendants at the top court.

On Monday (April 16) the counsel for the petitioner submitted before the Supreme Court bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud that the building itself is authorised. The previous order has been complied with.

The amicus curiae suggested to the court that the home buyers should take the house, pay the home loan, surrender the documents but no interest is to be paid and settle the matter for those 130 home buyers.

The matter is listed for May 15.

—India Legal Bureau