MUMBAI: Supreme Court on Friday allowed actor Sonu Sood to withdraw his petition challenging a notice issued last October by BMC against alleged unauthorized alterations to convert a six-storey residential building in Juhu into a hotel.
A three-judge bench of Chief Justice S A Bobde and Justices A S Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian directed the authorities to consider and decide his application on its own merits and in accordance with law.
Sood’s counsel Mukul Rohatgi sought withdrawal of his special leave petition before the apex court against an order of Bombay high court, denying him relief, and his suit before city civil court in Mumbai, against BMC.
SC, allowing his plea, said both stand dismissed as withdrawn.
Last month, Justice P K Chavan of HC said Sood had come to court with “unclean hands’’ to seek protection from civic action against “illegal alterations” to the Juhu property.
HC had found no merit in Sood’s plea for protection against demolition on ground of ‘equity’. HC had said he had been “repeatedly committing breach of provisions’’ of civic law and Maharashtra Regional and Town Planning Act. “Equity cannot supplant law,’’ HC had said, accepting BMC’s claim that the actor was a “habitual offender’’.