The Bombay High Court on Monday<\/p>\n
closed all arguments and reserved its verdict on the petition filed by actor Kangana Ranaut against the demolition of a part of her bungalow in Mumbai by the city civic body.<\/p>\n
A bench of Justices S J Kathawalla and R I Chagla conducted hearings on the plea last week before closing it for orders on Monday.<\/p>\n
Ranaut approached the high court September 9 after the demolition of a part of her bungalow in Pali Hill area here by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).<\/p>\n
She had sought that the demolition be declared illegal and the court direct BMC to pay her Rs 2 crore as damages.<\/p>\n
Ranaut, through her counsel Dr Birendra Saraf, had alleged that the BMC carried out the demolition out of malice following a comment she made against the Mumbai Police that irked the Shiv Sena-led government in Maharashtra.<\/p>\n
She also cited an alleged threat given to her by Shiv Sena’s chief spokesperson Sanjay Raut in an interview.<\/p>\n
Saraf told the HC during previous hearings that the demolition was carried out on September 9, the same day as the interview.<\/p>\n
The BMC’s counsels, Anil Sakhre, Joel Carlos and Aspi Chinoy, had, however, denied the actor’s allegations.<\/p>\n
They said the BMC had simply been performing its statutory duty in demolishing such portions of the bungalow that Ranaut had altered illegally.<\/p>\n
In an affidavit filed through Carlos, the civic body alleged that despite making illegal structural changes, Ranaut had approached court for relief.<\/p>\n
This was an abuse of the process of law, the BMC said and urged the HC to dismiss her plea and impose a cost on her.<\/p>\n
Raut also told the court through his counsel Pradeep Thorat that the BMC’s action had nothing to do with his interview or any other comments made on Ranaut.<\/p>\n
During the previous hearings, the bench questioned the BMC’s swiftness in demolishing Ranaut’s property.<\/p>\n
It also stayed the demolition through an interim order and noted that had the BMC shown similar swiftness in all cases of illegal construction, Mumbai would have been a very different city.<\/p>\n
The court had also asked Raut if it befitted a parliamentarian to use ungraceful language against a citizen?<\/p>\n
“Don’t you have any grace?” the HC asked after viewing a clip of the interview where Raut asked “what is law,” responding to a question on if he would take legal action against Ranaut for having compared Mumbai to PoK in a tweet.<\/p>\n
The HC on Monday also accepted written submissions from Dr Saraf and the BMC summing up their arguments before closing the matter for orders.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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