New Delhi, April 18 -- The Supreme Court on Thursday held that homebuyers have a right to raise their genuine grievances against builders by organising peaceful protests and putting up banners to espouse their grievances in a language that is not rude or abusive as it quashed a defamation case initiated by a Mumbai-based developer to silence homebuyers who resorted to this unique form of protest to showcase defaults in constructions of their housing project in Borivali.
A bench comprising justice KV Viswanathan and N Kotiswar Singh said that just as developers have a right of commercial speech to advertise their flats, the homebuyers have a constitutional right to vent their grievances through peaceful protest, especially when their action...