The BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Wednesday started demolishing the Bandra office of Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut for alleged unauthorized modifications/extensions, officials said here.
A team of the BMC H-West Ward officers amid a police posse reached the office with bulldozers, JCBs and other heavy equipment and took up the demolition work from the surface .
The development came barely hours after the BMC pasted a notice outside the office rejecting a reply filed by Kangana`s lawyer, Rizwan Siddique, to the Tuesday (September 8) notice during which the civic body had listed a series of violations within the ongoing works in her office.
The BMC Executive Engineer said that he was satisfied that the (illegal) works were being administered and therefore the actress had did not produce the permissions/approvals/sanction for it as per BMC laws.
As I am all set for Mumbai Darshan on my way to the airport,Maha government and their goons are at my property all set to illegally break it down, go on! I promised to give blood for Maharashtra pride this is nothing take everything but my spirit will only rise higher and higher. pic.twitter.com/6lE9LoKGjq
— Kangana Ranaut (@KanganaTeam) September 9, 2020
“Therefore, the work administered by you as mentioned within the notification schedule is said as unauthorized,” said the chief Engineer. He also said that the continued work on the premises wasn’t stopped and warned that it’s “liable for forthwith demolition at your risk, cost, and consequences”. The notice also cautioned that the actress could face imprisonment of a minimum of 1 month up to at least one year besides penalties.
In a series of tweets, Kangana slammed the BMC officials. She tweeted, “As i’m ready for Mumbai Darshan on my thanks to the airport, Maha government and their goons are at my property ready to illegally break it down, go on! I promised to offer blood for Maharashtra pride this is often nothing take everything but my spirit will only rise higher and better .”
She also wrote, “I am never wrong and my enemies prove again and again this is often why my Mumbai is POK now #deathofdemocracy.”
The latest development came two days after a BMC team paid a surprise visit to her office and surveyed the premises at Bungalow No. 5, Chetan town house , Nargis Dutt Road, Bandra West.
The survey was followed by the notice to Ranaut to prevent the continued works within 24 hours, but after her staffers refused to simply accept it, the notice was posted outside her office of Manikarna Films on Tuesday.
As per the notice, the violations include: merging of two bungalows, converting a ground-floor toilet into an office cabin, converting a storeroom into a kitchen, making an unauthorized pantry within the ground floor, adding toilets near the storeroom and a parking lot , illegal partitions in first-floor front room , an illegal meeting room within the pooja room, converting a balcony into a habitable area beside a floor extension, etc.
The bungalow, which Ranaut had bought three years ago, is listed as a residential property by the BMC.
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