The homebuyers have accused the developer of failing to commence reconstruction of the damaged towers as directed by the court and of halting rent payments to displaced residents, in violation of both judicial and administrative orders.
After a number of visits by demolition consultants at the site, Edifice Engineering had suggested the mechanical and manual demolition technique, involving machines, at Chintels Paradiso instead of a controlled implosion method, which was used in the demolition of Noida’s Supertech twin towers.
This is the sixth tower that has been declared “unsafe to live” by the IIT Delhi structural audit report. Prior to this, towers D, E, F, G and H were declared "unsafe to live".
Going by early developments, that seems unlikely, with the consultants charged with bringing down the towers in Gurugram apparently inclined to go in for the mechanical method to raze the floors