{
  "id": 10092137,
  "title": "Bombay HC Orders Santacruz Society To Hand Over 2 Unfinished Flats To Original Allottees",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/26/bombay-hc-orders-santacruz-society-to-hand-over-2-unfinished-flats-to",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-26T23:14:03.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/mumbai/bombay-hc-orders-santacruz-society-to-hand-over-2-unfinished-flats-to-original-allottees"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The Bombay High Court has ordered a Santacruz cooperative housing society to hand over two unfinished flats to the original allottees, Dr Omprakash Soniminde and his wife, Chandrakala, after finding the earlier allotment to the directors of the society’s contractor to be \"clearly arbitrary\". The dispute, which dates back nearly three decades, involves the allocation of additional flats constructed on top of the Le Chateau and Shamrock buildings using TDR/FSI. The court ruled that the contractor's directors, Ramesh Mankani and Renu Mankani, had no independent claim over the flats and that the existing members were entitled to benefit from the additional construction. The Sonimindes must pay Rs 2.5 crore to the existing allottees within six weeks, or risk losing possession of the flats.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}