The state government on Wednesday appointed a retired Gujarat high court judge, Justice R D Kothari, as the chairman of the Real Estate Regulatory Authority (RERA) appellate tribunal. Real estate developers were demanding the formation of the tribunal as several of their cases rejected by the RERA were pending undecided since its inception.
The government also appointed government officer Mehul Gandhi as the judicial officer in the RERA tribunal and Ajay Das Mehrotra as the technical/administrative member. The chairman and the member will have fixed five-year terms.
The RERA Act has the provision of an appellate tribunal. However, since the adoption of the RERA Act in Gujarat, the state government had not appointed anyone to head the tribunal. According to the government order, the tribunal will hear all grievances raised against the RERA.
If developers are aggrieved by the orders of the RERA and the RERA tribunal, they can approach the high court.
