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Sonu Sood property row with BMC: Actor moves Bombay HC over complaint on six-storey Juhu building

Updated : Jan 11, 2021, 16:39 IST204 views

Bollywood actor Sonu Sood has moved the Bombay High Court challenging the order of the City Civil Court at Dindoshi rejecting his plea for interim relief against the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) from taking any action pursuant to their notice in relation to his residential property in Mumbai's Juhu. The BMC had recently filed a police complaint against him for allegedly converting his six-storey residential property into a hotel without taking BMC's permission. The notice under Section 53 of the Maharashtra Regional and Town Planning Act had alleged that Sonu Sood carried out unauthorised additions and alterations on his residential property beyond the approved plan of BMC. The Dindoshi Civil Judge had refused to grant interim injunction stating that BMC had rightly detected the illegality. The actor's plea, challenging that order, said that the Dindoshi Civil Court failed to consider that BMC's notice was issued with an intention of causing harm to his property. As per reports, the plea, which Sood filed through his lawyer and advocate DP Singh, claimed that the Civil judge did not consider that the notice was nothing but blackmailing tactics at the behest of one Ganesh Kusmulu who had filed a complaint before the Lokayukta.The plea further stated that even if the actor was to regularise the alleged unauthorised construction, the unauthorised portion could not be identified from the notice itself. It was also submitted that the notice was issued in total contravention of Section 53 of the MRTP within a period of 30 days, when it should have been issued after 'not less than 30 days'. Sood's plea reportedly said that the judge had failed to consider that the said notice is illegal and was issued without proper authority and without proper description of the premises, which could not be termed as notice under Section 53. The plea will be heard by a single bench of Justice Prithviraj Chavan on 11 December. Sonu Sood, who is well known for work in hits like 'Dabangg', 'Simmba' and more, has been all over the news the past one year for his philanthropy work and charitable initiatives sponsored during the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown.

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