Actor Sonu Sood a ordinary offender of unlawful building: HC advised

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Bollywood actor Sonu Sood is a “habitual offender” who retains finishing up unauthorised building work in a residential constructing in suburban Juhu regardless of demolition motion initiated on two events up to now, the Mumbai civic physique acknowledged in its affidavit filed within the Bombay High Court on Tuesday. The affidavit was filed in response to the petition filed by Sood final week difficult a discover issued in opposition to him by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) in October final 12 months and an order handed by a civil court docket in December 2020 dismissing his go well with in opposition to the discover.
In its discover, the BMC had alleged that Sood carried out structural adjustments within the six-storey residential constructing ”Shakti Sagar” and was changing it right into a industrial lodge.
“The appellant is a habitual offender and wants to enjoy the commercial proceeds of the unauthorised work and therefore once again started reconstructing the demolished portion in order to make it operational as a hotel albeit illegally and without permission from the License department,” the civic physique stated within the affidavit.
As per the affidavit, Sood was attempting to guard an “ex-facie illegal commercial hotel which has been constructed and modified by the appellant (Sood) contrary to the sanctioned building plan”.
“The appellant has not been given permission for change of user of the said property from residential to commercial and there is no license to run the commercial hotel,” the affidavit stated.
It added that Sood had sought umbrage below unwarranted and baseless allegations of harassment and malafides.
“The appellant, who has totally modified an entire building unauthorisedly into a hotel, is running the same without a license,” the municipal company stated.
The BMC stated preliminary motion was initiated in opposition to the unlawful building in September 2018 however Sood continued the development work.

On November 12, 2018, demolition of the unauthorised work was carried out.
“Such is the audacity of the appellant that he once again started alterations and reconstructed the demolished portion. Therefore, the BMC once again took action of demolition on February 14, 2020,” the affidavit stated.
It stated Sood had no paperwork to even point out that he or his spouse Sonali Sood are the house owners of the stated constructing.
The petition shall be heard on Wednesday by Justice Prithviraj Chavan.
The excessive court docket on Monday prolonged until Wednesday the civil court docket”s order restraining the BMC from taking a coercive motion in opposition to the alleged unlawful building.
Sood in his plea had claimed that he had not carried out any unlawful or unauthorised building within the six-storey Shakti Sagar constructing.
“The petitioner (Sood) has not made any changes in the building that warrants permission from the BMC. Only those changes that are allowed under the Maharashtra Regional and Town Planning (MRTP) Act have been done,” Sood”s advocate Amogh Singh had argued.
The petition had requested the court docket to quash and put aside the discover issued by the BMC in October, 2020, and likewise sought an interim aid to not take any coercive motion in opposition to the actor.
Sood, who is understood for his roles in movies like “Dabangg”, “Jodha Akbar” and “Simmba”, got here into highlight in 2020 for his philanthropy work in serving to migrants attain their properties through the COVID-19 lockdown.