HC relief for Kapil over illegal construction in Mumbai suburb
MUMBAI: The Bombay high court restrained on Thursday the city police from taking any coercive action against actor Kapil Sharma, based on the FIR lodged against him alleging illegal construction in his Goregaon flat.
A bench led by Justice Naresh Patil also disposed of the pleas filed in the high court by Sharma, actor Irrfan Khan, who resides in the same building, some other residents, and the developer of the building, challenging a notice issued to them by the BMC in September 2016 over the same allegations.
Patil, however, directed Sharma’s counsel, advocate Pradeep Thorat, and the other petitioners to file a reply to the BMC notice within three weeks. He also directed the corporation to grant a “personal hearing” to Sharma. The directions came after the BMC informed the bench that it had decided to withdraw the show cause notice issued to Sharma, Khan, and the others in April 2015.
In the notice, the corporation had claimed that Sharma and other occupants of several flats between the fourth and the 16th floor of the said building had misused FSI regulations and extended the liveable spaces allotted to them by encroaching upon common decorative spaces and elevation features of the building. It had asked them to explain why the illegal portions must not be demolished.
Following the notice, however, the developer of the building and few occupants , filed a civil suit in the lower court and secured interim relief by way of an order restraining the BMC from taking any coercive action.