Actor Aamir’s flat plan put on hold

BMC has put on hold its permission given to actor Aamir Khan to connect his four flats in an apartment building in Pali Hill area following a complaint filed by one of the residents.

The actor wanted to amalgamate all his four flats, located on different floors in the building, Marina Apartments, through an internal staircase.

He owns one flat on the ground floor, two on the first and another on the second floor. Khan wanted to merge them by cutting a few parts of slabs and connecting them through an internal staircase in the ground plus three-storey building in Virgo Housing Society (of which Marina Apartments is a part).

Khan last month obtained the required permission from the Building Proposal Department of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).

However, the civic body has now put the approval on hold following a complaint filed by a flat owner, Geneve De Sa, with the BMC.

An official from the BMC Building Proposal Department confirmed the development but declined to provide further details.

“Amir Khan procured the required permission from the BMC in mid-July and has started work. But one of the flat owners, Geneve De Sa, found ‘illegalities’ in the merger plan and approached me to file a complaint,” Shirish Sukhtame, a noted architect and friend of De Sa, told PTI.

Khan was not available for comment on the issue.