Haryana RERA has directed Chintels India to reinstate a cancelled 577-square-yard plot in Sector 106, Gurugram, and pay buyers 10.8% annual delay interest.
The Haryana Real Estate Regulatory Authority has directed Chintels India to reinstate a cancelled plot, L-001, in its International City-Plots project in Sector 106, Gurugram. The order, dated July 23, 2026, also requires the developer to pay 10.8% annual delay-possession interest to the buyers. The plot measures 577 square yards, with an original sale consideration of over ₹2.7 crore. Possession was originally due February 17, 2024.
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Chintels India had tried to justify both the delay and the cancellation by citing force majeure, pointing specifically to an Enforcement Directorate land attachment from April 2021 and a High Court status quo order. HRERA member Phool Singh Saini rejected that defence. The authority found the project was still active, since Chintels hadn't even filed for an occupation certificate, which undercut the developer's claim that outside events had made completion impossible.
Chintels also argued that the complainants, Sangeeta Aggarwal, Kamla Devi, and Varsha Aggarwal, who bought the plot in April 2022, were subsequent purchasers who knew about the encumbrances going in. HRERA rejected that too, reaffirming a principle that sits at the core of Section 18(1) of the RERA Act: a promoter can't unilaterally force a refund on a buyer who wants to stay invested in a project. The buyers had already turned down a ₹1.3 crore refund offer, choosing instead to hold out for the plot itself, and this ruling validates that choice rather than the developer's preference to exit them.
This isn't Chintels India's only recent HRERA order. In April 2026, the authority directed the company to pay a Delhi-based homebuyer more than ₹4 crore in compensation over serious construction defects at Chintels Paradiso in Sector 109, the same project where a fatal tower collapse in 2022 first exposed structural problems serious enough that authorities later found part of the development unfit for habitation. That order also carried a 10.8% annual interest rate on the unpaid amount, the same rate applied in this newer Sector 106 case, since both draw on the same SBI-linked formula Haryana RERA orders consistently use.
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The core principle here is one worth knowing regardless of which developer you're dealing with. Under RERA, a delayed or disputed project doesn't give the developer the right to decide your outcome for you. You can choose to exit with a refund plus interest, or stay in and collect delay interest while holding out for the property itself, and a developer citing external disruptions doesn't automatically override that choice unless the disruption genuinely stopped construction rather than just being cited after the fact.
