Section 24 – Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016

– (1) In addition to the powers specified in subsection (2) of section 35 the Authority shall also have the following powers, namely:-
(a) require the promoter, allottee or real estate agent to furnish in writing such
information or explanation or produce such documents within such reasonable
time, as it may deem necessary; and
(b) requisitioning, subject to the provisions of sections 123 and 124 of the Indian
Evidence Act, 1872, any public record or document or copy of such record or
document from any office.
(2) The Authority may call upon such experts or consultants from the fields of economics,
commerce, accountancy, real estate, competition, construction, architecture or engineering or law
or from any other discipline as it deems necessary, to assist the Authority in the conduct of any
inquiry or proceedings before it.
(3) The Authority may in the interest of the allottees, enquire into the payment of amounts
imposed as penalty, interest or compensation, paid or payable by the promoter, in order to ensure
that the promoter has not.-
(a) withdrawn the said amounts from the account maintained as provided under subclause (D) of clause (l) of sub-section (2) of section 4; or
(b) used any amounts paid to such promoter by the allottees for that real estate project
for which the penalty, interest or compensation is payable, or any other real estate
project; or
(c) recovered the amounts paid as penalty, fine or compensation from the allottees of
the relevant real estate project or any other real estate project.