In an indication of just how frustrated and helpless homebuyers feel against the powerful builder lobby, response is still pouring in about this paper's front-page report on how one buyer put a builder in jail.

The Maharashtra State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission struck a landmark blow against errant builders, sentencing a developer to six years in jail for failing to comply with its order to register the sale and hand over possession of two flats to a retired railway stationmaster who had paid for them in 2010.