BMC rushes to demolish Kangana Ranaut's office inside & outside despite lawyer's counter

The BMC on Wednesday entered actor Kangana Ranaut's office, a day after pasting a 'stop work' notice outside her office in Mumbai. Bringing a JCB and mechanised tools along with them, the civic body issued another notice stating that the structure will be demolished, and then immediately began to do so. The development comes at a time when the actor has reached Chandigarh Airport to catch a flight back to Mumbai amid a tussle with the Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi state government over her recent remarks.

'Stop Work Notice' is absolutely bad-in-law

Responding to Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's notice, Kangana Ranaut's lawyer Rizwan Siddiqui has said that no work is being carried out by Kangana Ranaut in her premises "as falsely understood by you, so the notice issued by you as 'Stop Work Notice' is absolutely bad-in-law & appears to have been issued only to intimidate her by misusing your dominant position."

However, in the fresh notice, the BMC has said that the allegations in reply (by Kangana Ranaut's lawyer) are baseless. "After receipt of the notice, you continued the work...So, the notice structure as mentioned in the notice is liable for forthwith demolition at your risk, cost & consequences," Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai said.

'I am never wrong'

Posting a photo of the BMC officials demolishing her office, Kangana Ranaut said, "I am never wrong and my enemies prove again and again this is why my Mumbai is POK now." 

Kangana had on Monday shared on Twitter that BMC officials have threatened to demolish her property in Mumbai amid the war-of-words between the Maharashtra Government and the Bollywood actor. The Manikarnika actor shared a video where allegedly BMC workers can be seen at Manikarnika films- Kangana's production house in Mumbai. She has also shared that her office has been "forcefully" taken over and that her neighbours in Mumbai are being harassed by them.

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She added, "I have all the papers, BMC permissions nothing has been done illegally in my property, BMC should send a structure plan to show the illegal construction with a notice, today they raided my place and without any notice tomorrow they demolishing the entire structure."

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Kangana Ranaut has invited the ire of the ruling Shiv Sena after she compared Mumbai with 'Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir' and 'Taliban'. She has also been warned by Sena leaders to not return to Mumbai. This comes amid Kangana's continuous criticism of the Maharashtra government and Mumbai Police's investigation in Sushant's death case.

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