Kangana Ranaut seeks Rs 2 crore damages from BMC and files amended petition before HC

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Actress Kangana Ranaut has amended her petition before the Bombay high court and is now seeking Rs 2 crore in damages suffered due to the illegal demolition carried out by BMC on September 9 on part of her Pali Hill bungalow number 5 in Bandra, West.

BMC has demolished 40 percent of the bungalow including valuable movable property like chandeliers, sofa, rare art works. She challenged the premeditated and vitiated’ demolition done by a civic squad 24 hours after issuing a notice. She questioned the absence of any detection report of September 5 as claimed by the BMC.

Last Thursday her advocate Rizwan Siddiquee had informed the High Court that he would by Monday amend the 29 page petition filed hastily on Wednesday against the demolition notice. Her petition filed before mid-night is now a bulky 92 pages. Her petition seeks an order to quash the demolition notice of September 7 and order of September 9 and to restrain the BMC from taking any further steps in implementing the demolition order of September 9. The order was pasted on her bungalow door at 10.35 am that day. She has sought interim orders to be permitted to take such steps as necessary to make the bungalow capable of use.

Her lawyer had sent a reply on September 8 to BMC’s demolition notice under section 354A, Her amended petition says that though her reply was rejected at 10.35 am, BMC and police officers were already present outside the bungalow well before the time of the Impugned Order which can be proved by the Petitioner’s tweet at 10:19am on 9th of September, 2020. The photograph clearly shows that the officials along with police officers and with all the equipment as they were already ready to demolish the said Bungalow which shows that BMC always had mala fide intentions and ulterior motives to demolish the Bungalow and were ready even before the Impugned Order to demolish was passed.

It said when Siddiquee went to the Bungalow on September 9 to serve the H/W ward officer with a copy of her petition and said that the matter was scheduled to be heard at 12.30 pm that day the BMC official locked the bungalow from inside ignoring the advocate’ and continued the demolition.