A few years ago, Amitabh Bachchan and seven others, including Rajkumar Hirani, Oberoi Realty, Pankaj Balaji, Sanjay Vyas, Haresh Khandelwal and Haresh Jagtani, was served notice by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation for “illegal construction”. The issue has now been raked up by Congress councillor advocate Tulip Brian Miranda who has accused the civic body of dragging its feet in taking action against the Bachchan property. The councillor said the notice was served for the road widening project and after a notice is served, no appeal is required for a road-widening project. But the BMC did not take any action.
Now the civic body has started following up on its 2017 notice and will soon demolish a part of Prateeksha, the first bungalow of the Bachchans in Mumbai, news agency ANI reported. The Bachchans have another bungalow named ‘Jalsa’.
“BMC gave notice to Amitabh Bachchan in 2017 under road widening policy but no action was taken. When the notice is issued why that land wasn’t taken by BMC. No appeal required for road widening project after notice served,” the councillor told news agency ANI.
According to reports, Bachchan and others were issued Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices in 2016-2017 as they made changes in the main map.
“Had it belonged to a common person, the BMC would have taken it immediately. Them why was the land not taken under Section 299 of the Municipal Act notice that says you don’t have to wait for a second notice of appeal,” Tulip said.
The report said that the civic body has instructed Mumbai suburban collector city suvey official to demarcate the exact portion of the bungalow required for the widenting of the Sant Dnyaneshwar Marg road, which connets the Chandan Cinema area to Link Roar towards Iskcon temple.
The road widening project is very crucial to ease traffic congestion in the area, but the work is not getting completed because of Prateeksha, the councillow alleged. “I wrote to the BMC in Feb 2021. I did not receive a reply so I had a telephonic conversation with the ward officer and wrote to the commissioner but still did not receive a reply. This is a very necessary project because there are two schools, a hospital, an ISKCON temple, and monuments in Mumbai are around. The road winding project has been suddenly stopped just because of Amitabh Bachchan’s Bungalow,” she added.
The councillor mentioned that other plots required for the project was acquired by the civic body. The wall of the plot adjoining Bachchan’s bungalow was taken and drainage was created, she said.
(With ANI inputs)
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