Promoter's responsibility for essential services

(1) No promoter and no person who is responsible for the management and maintenance of a building or apartments, shall without just and sufficient cause, either by himself or through any person, cut off, withhold, curtail or reduce, any essential supply or service enjoyed in respect of such apartment or plot by the person who has taken or agreed to take an apartment or plot or by any person in occupation thereof through or under him. (2) If there is a contravention of the provisions of sub-section (1), the person who has taken or agreed to take the apartment or plot or the occupier thereof may make an application to the Director for a direction to restore such supply or service. (3) If the Director on enquiry finds that the person referred to in sub-section (2) has been in enjoyment of the essential supply or service and that it was cut off or withheld or curtailed or reduced without just and sufficient cause, the Director shall make an order directing the restoration of such supply or service before a date to be specified in the order. (4) If the supply or service is not restored before the date specified under sub-section (3), the promoter or the person responsible for the management and maintenance of the building or apartment or plot shall be liable, upon a further direction by the Director to that effect, to a penalty which may extend to one thousand rupees for each day during which the default continues thereafter.