Following up on its 2017 notice to Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan over "illegal construction", the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is set to demolish a part of Prateeksha, one of the two bungalows of Amitabh in Mumbai, news agency ANI reported. The megastar has another bungalow in the city named 'Jalsa'.
In 2017, the BMC had served notices to Amitabh Bachchan and seven others, including Rajkumar Hirani, Oberoi Realty, Pankaj Balaji, Sanjay Vyas, Haresh Khandelwal and Haresh Jagtani over "illegal construction".
The Bachchan family was earlier served a notice by the Mumbai Civic body for road widening that says a portion of their Pratheeksha bungalow plot will be acquired for the widening of the Sant Dnyaneshwar Marg road, reported news agency ANI.
The BMC has also directed Mumbai Suburban Collector City survey officials to demarcate the exact portion of the bungalow necessary for the road-widening projects
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Speaking to the media, Municipal Councillor Advocate Tulip Brian Miranda explained how the BMC has managed to complete their task for all other houses except around the Bollywood actors and said that the key project had been stalled.
"The BMC had given notice to actor Amitabh Bachchan in 2017 about this situation under the road winding policy. The wall of the plot adjoining Bachchan's bungalow was taken and drainage has been created. But Bachchan's house has been left untouched," the advocate said. "When the notice was issued, why was the land not taken? It belonged to a common person they would have taken it immediately under Section 299 of the Municipal Act notice that says you don't have to wait for a second notice of appeal." She added.
According to reports, Bachchan and others were issued Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices in 2016-2017 as they apparently made changes in the main map.
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"I wrote to the BMC in Feb 2021. I did not receive a reply so I had a telephonic conversation with the ward officer and wrote to the commissioner but still did not receive a reply. This is a very necessary project because there are two schools, a hospital, an ISKCON temple, and monuments in Mumbai are around. The road winding project has been suddenly stopped just because of Amitabh Bachchan's Bungalow," Tulip Brian Miranda added.
