Booked in 2018, Due in 2023, Ordered in 2026: HARERA Tells Godrej Highview to Hand Over a Nature Plus Flat and Pay Delay Interest

At a glance

• HARERA Gurugram has directed Godrej Highview LLP to hand over a flat in Tower T4 of Godrej Nature Plus, Sector 33, Sohna, and to pay statutory delay possession interest from the due date until actual handover. The order was uploaded on 9 July 2026.
• The buyers booked in 2018 and paid about ₹89.3 lakh against a roughly ₹1.2 crore price. Possession was due by 30 June 2023, extended once to 30 December 2023 under HARERA's Covid notification. The tower still has no occupation certificate.
• The developer's force majeure defence failed. HARERA held that pollution bans and labour shortages are recurring events and cannot justify indefinite delay, and that the Covid extension already covered the pandemic.
• The authority also held that contractual liability rests solely with Godrej Highview LLP, not the landowner or associated entities.

GURUGRAM, July 15, 2026. Eight years after a family booked a flat in Sohna, the regulator has ordered the developer to hand it over. HARERA Gurugram has directed Godrej Highview LLP, the promoter of Godrej Nature Plus in Sector 33, to give the buyers possession of their unit in habitable condition once the occupation certificate is in place, and to pay delay possession interest under the RERA Act from the due date until the day the keys actually change hands. The order was uploaded on 9 July, per ET Realty's report on the ruling.

The developer is also restrained from levying any charge the buyer's agreement does not provide for.

The case is worth reading beyond its facts, because the order draws a line that matters for every delayed project in NCR: Covid bought developers six months, and nothing more.

The case, in sequence

The complainants, Ravi Kant Thakral, Minakshi Thakral and Anuj Thakral, booked the apartment in Tower T4 of Godrej Nature Plus in 2018.

Date	Event
2018	Flat booked in Tower T4, Godrej Nature Plus, Sector 33, Sohna. Sale consideration about ₹1.2 crore; the buyers went on to pay about ₹89.3 lakh
30 Jun 2023	Contractual possession date passes with no offer of possession
30 Dec 2023	Revised due date, after HARERA's Covid-19 notification granted all developers a six-month extension. Construction remained incomplete and Tower T4 had no occupation certificate
After Dec 2023	The buyers move HARERA
9 Jul 2026	Order uploaded: hand over possession after obtaining the OC, pay delay interest from the due date until actual handover

The force majeure defence, and why it failed

Godrej Highview attributed the delay to events it said were beyond its control: the Covid-19 pandemic, labour shortages, construction bans under pollution-control measures, and supply chain disruptions. It asked the authority to exclude the affected periods from the delay calculation.

HARERA rejected the plea in full.

The reasoning has two parts. On Covid, the authority pointed out that its pandemic-era notification had already granted a blanket six-month extension, which moved this unit's due date to 30 December 2023. The force majeure event was priced in once, and the developer cannot claim it again.

On everything else, the authority was blunter:

Periodic construction bans due to environmental concerns and labour shortages are recurring events and cannot justify indefinite delays in fulfilling contractual obligations.

Anyone who builds in NCR knows winter construction bans and labour cycles are annual facts of life. HARERA's position is that a promoter who signs a possession date has already signed up to manage them.

Who is liable, and who is not

The order also settles a party question that comes up in most projects built on shared land. The complaint had named the landowner, associated entities and certain officials. HARERA accepted that none of them signed the buyer's agreement, so none of them carry direct contractual liability to the allottees.

The responsibility for delivering the apartment rests solely with Godrej Highview LLP. For buyers, the practical lesson is that your rights run against the entity that signed your agreement, and that is where a complaint should aim.

What the order directs

• Hand over possession of the unit immediately after obtaining the occupation certificate, in habitable condition
• Pay delay possession interest under the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016, from the due date until the actual date of handover
• No charges outside the agreement: the developer cannot levy anything the buyer's agreement does not envisage

Note the sequence built into the first direction. Possession follows the OC, and the OC does not yet exist. The interest meter, however, runs the whole time, which is what gives the order its teeth.

The project, from the filed record

RERA Tracker has checked the project against its filed registration:

Godrej Nature Plus, by the filing
RERA registration	RERA-GRG-359-2019 · Reg. no. 18 of 2018, dated 30 January 2018 (certificate)
Promoter	Godrej Highview LLP
Location	Sector 33, Sohna, Gurugram
Project land	15.595 acres, of 18.744 licensed acres
Registration valid up to	30 January 2028

One detail worth sitting with: the project's RERA registration currently runs to 30 January 2028. The buyers' agreement promised June 2023. The two dates measure different things, and this order is a reminder that the agreement is what binds the promoter to the buyer. A registration extension does not move your possession date, and delay interest runs from the contractual due date regardless.

What this means for buyers

For the Thakral family, possession plus interest on roughly ₹89.3 lakh from December 2023 onwards. For everyone else, especially other Nature Plus allottees in the same position, the order sets out the playbook:

• Delay interest is a statutory right. If your possession date has passed, interest runs from the due date to actual handover. You do not have to accept a fresh promise in place of it.
• Force majeure has a fixed size. The Covid extension was six months. Pollution bans, labour shortages and supply chain trouble did not persuade the regulator, and they are unlikely to next time.
• Complain against the signing entity. Name the promoter on your agreement, not the wider group of companies behind the project.
• Check the filed record before you act. The project page carries the registration, and the HARERA certificate is a click away.

What RERA Tracker is tracking

• The text of the order, which we will index on the project's page
• The occupation certificate for Tower T4, which the handover now waits on
• Similar complaints on Godrej Nature Plus and other Sohna projects, and whether this reasoning on recurring events is applied to them
• The project's registration status as the 30 January 2028 validity date approaches

We will update this article as the record develops.

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This story shows why the record matters. A possession promise lives in the buyer's agreement, the registration lives with the regulator, and when the two drift apart it is the order that decides. Reading the filing is the whole job.

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This article is based on ET Realty's report of 14 July 2026 (TNN) on a HARERA Gurugram order uploaded on 9 July 2026; the order text was being obtained at the time of writing. Project identity, promoter, location and registration details have been independently verified against the filed RERA registration indexed by RERA Tracker. For information only, not legal or investment advice. Buyers should verify current status on haryanarera.gov.in and seek independent counsel before acting.