HC Asks Raut To Reply To Kangana’s Plea On Bungalow Demolition
Mumbai: The Bombay Top Court docket on Thursday directed Shiv Sena leader spokesperson Sanjay Raut to report his respond to actor Kangana Ranaut’s petition in opposition to the demolition of part of her bungalow in Mumbai through the BMC. A bench of Justices S J Kathawalla and R I Chagla additionally directed the Brihanmumbai Municipal Company’s (BMC) H-ward officer Bhagyawant Overdue to report his respond to the plea.
Overdue had signed the demolition understand served to Ranaut on September 7. On Tuesday, Ranaut’s legal professional senior suggest Birendra Saraf submitted within the court docket a DVD containing a speech by which Raut allegedly made a remark threatening the actress.
Following this, the HC bench had authorised Ranaut to make each Raut and Overdue events to the case. On Thursday, the bench stated it’ll start ultimate listening to within the case on Friday.
Raut’s suggest Pradeep Thorat requested for extra time to report the answer, announcing the Shiv Sena Rajya Sabha member is these days in New Delhi. BMC’s senior suggest Anil Sakhre additionally sought extra time for Overdue to report his answer.
Justice Kathawalla stated the bench will start listening to the petitioner (Ranaut) on Friday and Raut may just report his answer anytime ahead of his flip to position forth his arguments within the court docket. The bench, on the other hand, directed the BMC to report the answer on Overdue’s behalf through Monday, announcing it would now not prolong the listening to.
“We can not depart the demolished area the best way it’s.The construction is demolished partially, and within the heavy monsoon, we can not depart it on this state. We can get started listening to the petitioner the next day to come,” the bench stated.
Ranaut, in her plea filed within the HC on September nine, sought that the demolition performed through the BMC at her Pali Hill bungalow be declared unlawful. She due to this fact amended her plea to call for Rs two crore as damages from the civic frame and its officers.
In her plea, she alleged that the BMC had demolished the bungalow out of private vendetta, since she had made some feedback hostile to the Shiv Sena-led Maharashtra executive. The BMC in its affidavit filed within the top court docket denied the allegation.
Within the affidavit filed via recommend Joel Carlos, the BMC stated Ranaut had performed unlawful structural adjustments and maintenance on the bungalow, and the civic officials have been simply following the legislation in demolishing unauthorised parts of the construction. The civic frame had recommended the top court docket to disregard Ranaut’s plea and to impose a price on her.
