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Totaram Maurya heaves bricks and sacks of cement on building sites in New Delhi to feed his family of seven. But he's been stuck at home with no pay for more than 10 days because of a ban on building work aimed at easing a toxic smog over the city.
A look at over 170 Delhi State Consumer Commission judgments till October this year relating to housing (where possession was either not handed over to buyers or was delayed despite buyers paying most of the price for the property) threw up some interesting details: