Summary:
Actor Kangana Ranaut has revised her petition pending before the Bombay high court and now seek compensation of Rs 2 crore for nearly 40% damage to her office during the demolition undertaken by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) in Mumbai on September 9.
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Actor Kangana Ranaut has revised her petition pending before the Bombay high court and now seek compensation of Rs 2 crore for nearly 40% damage to her office during the demolition undertaken by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) in Mumbai on September 9.
She alleged the action was initiated for her stand against a leader of Maharashtra’s ruling Shiv Sena.
As the same party is also heading the civic body, it was misused to carry out the demolition, she added.
Ranaut has been at loggerheads with the state government since she criticised Mumbai police’s handling of Sushant Singh Rajput’s death investigation.
She referred to Mumbai as “Pakistan-occupied Kashmir” and “Pakistan” and triggered a political controversy.
The state’s ruling alliance has accused her of carrying forward the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s political agenda.
Ranaut got security from the BJP-ruled Centre amid her spat with Sena leaders.
The petition said the presence of BMC staff and police officials outside the premises on September 9 even before civic authorities rejected her response to the stop-work notice showed the action was premeditated and taken with “malafide intentions”.
The actor said the BMC’s claim, in reply to her petition challenging the demolition, was without proper evidence and arbitrary.
She added the civic body’s claim that it found 14 alterations and additions to the property during the inspection on September 7 was not substantiated by proper evidence.