By Manish Mishra
Bombay High court on BMC demolish case today seeks Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut clarification on comment over Kangana Ranaut.
Kangana Ranaut has challenged BMC’s move to demolish portions of her property on grounds of alleged illegal alterations. Appearing for Actor Kangna Ranaut Senior Advocate Birendra Saraf, presents has claimed malice-in-law and malice-in-fact as grounds for the case.
While substantiating malice-in-fact, Kangana Ranaut’s lawyer brought up the infamous interview given by Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut where he threatened ”a lesson” upon Kangana’s return to Mumbai and also used an expletive addressed to her.
In the Court Room audio recording of Raut’s interview was played. which the Shiv Sena leader’s advocate Pradeep Thorat made a rather weak case that the petitioner has not been referred by name in the audio.
Bombay High Court asks Sanjay Raut’s lawyer if that would be his officially recorded statement. The judge pulled up Sanjay Raut’s lawyer by asking him whether his defense in the case is that Raut has not used a derogatory term.
High Court asks Kangana Ranaut’s Advocate to submit a dossier of her Twitter exchanges with Raut and others in opposition of the Maharashtra government along with various interviews and statements made by the Shiv Sena MP on different occasions in the last month.
Advocate Saraf brought up that Sanjay Raut has also clarified his abusive remark for the Bollywood actor in one of his interviews by explaining that the word means ‘naughty’. The judge has responded to Raut’s explanation with a seemingly mocking question – ‘then what is naughty?’.
Sanjay Ranaut Advocate submitted to the court-“There was no construction going on. The notice was not issued on the basis of any finding that any work was in progress. Assuming work was being done, under Section 354A of the BMC Act, the authorities have to first issue notice giving an opportunity to the person to produce the permit. Straightaway demolition not contemplated.”
“Parties also have the option to go for regularization. These opportunities were denied to Kangana Ranaut as the BMC authorities did not act according to the provisions,” Advocate Saraf