India, April 25 -- In a decisive response to the large-scale construction fraud uncovered in Dombivli, the Maharashtra Real Estate Regulatory Authority (MahaRERA), responsible for overseeing and ensuring transparency in the state's real estate sector, has launched an extensive verification drive for Occupancy Certificates (OCs) pertaining to 3,699 housing projects with lapsed registration. Letters have been dispatched to all relevant Planning Authorities, instructing them to verify the authenticity of the OCs uploaded by developers on the MahaRERA website.

This step follows the notorious Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation scam, in which multiple developers were involved in constructing 65 illegal buildings using fraudulent documents s...