KANGANA MOVES SC OVER HOUSE DEMOLITION AFTER HC ACTION
After the Bombay high court set aside Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) notice to actor Kangana Ranaut regarding “illegal construction” at her office premises and called it “nothing but malice in law”, the actor on Wednesday moved the Supreme Court and filed a caveat in the case. In her application, she asked the apex court to not pass any order without hearing her side of the case.
A division bench of the Bombay HC, on Friday, struck down a September 9 order issued by the BMC to demolish several unauthorised alterations made by the actor at her bungalow.
The bench of justices SJ Kathawalla and Riyaz Chagla held that the civic action was “actuated by malafides” and accepted the actor’s claim seeking compensation for damage caused by the illegal action. The bench said that the actor is justified in claiming damages in view of the law laid down by the Supreme Court in the Sunbeam Hightech Developers case, where the court held that it can award compensation where demolition was carried out illegally, even if the structure was unauthorized.
In a related development, a Punjab-based lawyer has sent a legal notice to Ranaut for allegedly misidentifying an old woman at the farmers’ protest in the national capital as Bilkis Bano, famously known as the ‘Shaheen Bagh dadi’.
Advocate Harkam Singh suggested Ranaut should have authenticated information before posting it on social media and demanded an apology.