Ranas' Khar building gets Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation notice

MUMBAI: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's (BMC) H west ward has issued an inspection notice to Lavie building in Khar's 14th road in Mumbai on Thursday evening.
This is the same building where Amravati MP Navneet Rana & MLA Ravi Rana own a flat on the 8th floor.
The Rana couple had been arrested from the same flat by the local police over the Hanuman Chalisa row on April 23.

The civic body action against the Ranas' flat where irregularities were found had to be halted after a civil court earlier this week allowed them to make a proposal to the BMC for regularisation of their structure within a month.
The civic body notice has been served to all the residents from the 1st floor to the ninth floor of the building, by the BMC’s designated officer of H west ward.
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The eighth floor has been kept out of this recent notice copy where the Ranas live as the irregularities which were pointed out by the BMC earlier this month are now under litigation.
Thursday’s notice states, “Under section 68 of the Mumbai Municipal Corporation act 1888, I have been duly empowered by the municipal commissioner to exercise and discharge the power and functions conferred upon and vested in him under Section 488 of the said act. I hereby give you notice that I shall on the day 30/05/2022 thereafter anytime pursuant to the provision of the last names section enter with assistants or workmen into or upon the premises…”
The notice further adds that the officials plan to take photographs, measurements as per the approved plans of March 2007, as granted by the executive engineer of the building proposal department.
It was first on May 2 that the BMC issued an inspection notice to the Ranas for their flat in Khar west.
This notice was also issued under section 488 of the BMC Act 1888 which empowers civic officials to visit any building and ascertain whether any illegal alterations have been undertaken.
Locals said that in the 1990s, the plot where Lavie building now stands would be a bungalow from where a music channel would operate.
However, a few years later, the bungalow was demolished to make way for the swanky highrise.
It may be recollected that the Shiv Sena-led BMC in the past had issued similar kind of notice to Union minister Narayan Rane for his Juhu building referred to as Adhish Bungalow as well as BJP functionary Mohit Kamboj for his Khar apartments over irregularities.