Mumbai, Jan 1 (PTI) MahaRera has dismissed a petitionby the late Ghazal singer Jagjit Singh's widow Chitra Singhand her grandson Armaan Chowdhary seeking refund of around Rs1.75 crore from a Goregoan builder after they cancelled theirbookings and the payment was dishonoured.Singh and Chowdhary had in 2013 booked two 3BHKs flatsfrom Sai Siddhi Developers' under-construction project in theGoregaon suburb of the city.According to Karan Bhosale, the developer's lawyer,the regulator dismissed her plea as the scope of the petitionwas beyond its purview and that the petitioner was free toapproach the civil courts for the checque bouncing case.Dismissing the petition, the MahaRera, had in a lateNovember order, said the matter did not violate any provisionsof the Rera Act of 2016.Chitra Singh had moved the regulator to get back herbooking amount along with interest to the tune of around Rs1.75 crore from Sai Siddhi Developers. She made the paymentsin 2013 for two 3BHK flats on the 10th floor of Sai Pearl inupscale Goregaon area of the city. At the time of the booking,the cost of the flats was over Rs 1 crore each.But later the builder told her that he had permissionfor only eight floors and thus he could not give the desiredflats, forcing her to cancel the bookings in 2015 and soughtrefunds.After the deal was cancelled, the builder gave her cheque in 2016, but those were dishonoured. Later Singh approached the authority for the refund, where her plea was dismissed.

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