India, Feb. 21 -- The Bombay high court held that developers cannot indefinitely defer their statutory obligations by invoking contractual or procedural contingencies and directed the district deputy registrar (DDR), co-operative societies, Mumbai city (4), to grant conveyance certificate to a Kandivali-based cooperative housing society which had been awaiting the certificate for the past ten years.

The single judge bench of justice Amit Borkar said that the developer's objection that the petitioner-society - Veer Tower Co-operative Housing Society in Kandivali West - must await the completion of redevelopment and the formation of a federation of all the six housing societies in the layout was devoid of legal merit.

"The statutory schem...