Amitabh Bachchan, Rajkumar Hirani and others get notices for illegal c

The BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation
has served notice to Bollywood megastar
Amitabh Bachchan and others for alleged
illegal constructions on their swank luxury
bungalows coming up near Film City in
Goregaon east, RTI queries have revealed.
The BMC notice was served to Amitabh and
others, including producer Rajkumar Hirani,
Pankaj Balaji, Sanjay Vyas, Haresh
Khandelwal, Haris Jagtiani and Oberoi Realty
under the Maharashtra Regional Town
Planning Act, on December 7, 2016, said
activist Anil Galgali.
"The notices were sent after variations were
observed by the BMC's P-South Ward Office,
in contrast to the Approved Plan of the
bungalows scheme in Oberoi Realty's Ciba
Layout, near the Film City," Galgali said.
"They were ordered to remove the violations
or submit a fresh plan to the Building
Proposals Department."
A BMC team which inspected the site found
several alleged violations, including internal
walls not built as per the plans, lifts not
installed, internal works
not completed, inclusion of elevation
projection spaces into the flats, and
basement works not done as per the
sanction plans.
On receipt of the MRTP notice, project
architect Shashank Kokil submitted a revised
proposal on January 5 this year, but it was
rejected by the BMC on March 17.
The rejection order was sent to the P-South
Ward Office on April 11, conveying the final
order to remove all the illegal constructions
and violations on the project, said advocate
Rajesh Dabholkar who is also pursuing the
matter.
On May 6, the BMC decided to remove the
violations on its own and restore as per the
original sanctioned plans.
After nearly four months, on September 12,
the P-South Ward Office issued a letter to the
Building Proposal Department claiming that
owing to non-clarity on the regularization
proposal, it was difficult for them to take
actions (to remove the violations) as per the
MRTP Act and asked for suitable clarifiations.
"The BMC did not wait for any clarifications
and demolished the unauthorized
constructions of actor Shah Rukh Khan. It
has also booked comedian Kapil Sharma and
other stars promptly for flouting various
laws," said Galgali.
"Then why they are dilly-dallying when the
matter concerns Amitabh Bachchan and
other celebrities?"
He has shot off letters to Chief Minister
Devendra Fadnavis and BMC Municipal
Commissioner Ajoy Mehta seeking
immediate action on the bungalow scheme
of Bachchan and others by demolishing the
illegal extensions and enclosures.
Dabholkar has sent separate letters on the
same issue to the P-South Ward Assistant
Municipal Commissioner and action against
those officials allegedly colluding in the
matter.

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