RERA Orders Are Not Decrees and Cannot Be Executed Through Civil Courts: Karnataka High Court

The Karnataka High Court has ruled that an order passed by the Real Estate Regulatory Authority (RERA) cannot be treated as a civil court decree and therefore cannot be executed through civil execution proceedings. Justice M Nagaprasanna held that the statutory framework shows RERA is a self-contained code whose orders must be enforced only through the recovery mechanism provided under the RERA Act, typically through the jurisdictional Revenue Authority and…