Kangana does a star 3600 turn

Tells HC she will urge BMC to regularise illegal construction

In a complete about turn, actor Kangana Ranaut on Wednesday told the Bombay High Court that she would be approaching the BMC to regularise the illegal construction in her Khar residence. The HC has allowed her to withdraw her plea before it and approach the civic body.

Notably, Kangana had initially claimed there were no illegalities in her flat but on Thursday, she told the bench of Justice Prithviraj Chavan that she would rather file an application before the BMC and seek regularisation of the same.

"We will withdraw this plea and approach the civic body to regularise the construction," Kangana's advocate Dr Birendra Saraf told the judge.

At this, the judge permitted the actress to move the civic body. "She should approach the civic body within a period of four weeks. The BMC will decide the matter expeditiously and not take any coercive action at least for two weeks," the court said.

It may be noted that the Dindoshi court had last month dismissed Kangana's suit stating that there were "glaring illegalities" in her flat.

The civic body had, in 2018, issued a demolition notice to the actress for converting three of her flats as one unit. She had however, refuted the contention claiming that it was the developer who had carried out the illegalities.

The bench of Justice Chavan had, in an earlier hearing, granted 2 weeks to the actress to spell out if she would approach BMC. Accordingly, on Wednesday, when the matter was called out for hearing, senior counsel Dr Saraf told the judge his client had decided to withdraw the plea.