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BMC Regularises Modifications In Amitabh Bachchan's Property
The Mumbai civic body has regularised alleged illegal modifications made in properties belonging to actor Amitabh Bachchan and six others, an RTI query has revealed.
The Mumbai civic body has regularised alleged illegal modifications made in properties belonging to actor Amitabh Bachchan and six others, an RTI query has revealed. The modifications were regularised by the BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) in October last, according to the information obtained by RTI activist Anil Galgali.
The development came over two months before the BMC demolished illegal constructions inside BJP MP and actor Shatrughan Sinha's eight-storey residential bungalow 'Ramayan' in suburban Juhu earlier this month.
A BMC official informed in a letter that illegal construction in Wings 1 to 7 at Oberoi Seven in Yashodhan in Goregaon East was regularised after a revised plan for the same was approved by the P-South administrative ward, Galgali said. Bachchan owns the bungalow, he said.
"A notice, under Section 53(1) of the Maharashtra Regional Town Planning Act, was issued in December, 2016 to the owners of (the) Wings for illegal construction," read the letter.
"In
response
to
the
notice,
architect
Shashank
Kokil
representing
the
owner/residents/developers
submitted
an
amended
plan
on
January
5,
2017
to
the
Executive
Engineer
(Building
Proposal),
Western
Suburbs,
P
Ward,
and
the
same
was
regularised
on
October
26,
2017,"
it
said.
After
the
BMC
served
notice
to
Bachchan
and
others
for
allegedly
carrying
out
illegal
constructions
on
their
properties,
the
actor's
attorney
issued
a
statement.
"Our client has purchased a property in Oberoi Seven from M/s. Oberoi Realty Limited, vide agreement dated October 29, 2012, registered before the Sub Registrar of Assurances on November 2, 2012. The property was purchased as a bare shell and our client has neither put any brick nor taken out any brick from the said property, hence the question of illegal construction does not arise," the statement had said.
The BMC had also issued notices to filmmaker Rajkumar Hirani, Pankaj Balaji, Sanjay Vyas, Haresh Khandelwal, Haris Jagtiani and Oberoi Realty under the Act. PTI
