Bombay HC stays BMC's demolition of Kangana's office, asks civic body to file a reply

The Bombay High Court has stayed Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's (BMC) demolition of actress Kangana Ranaut's Bandra office and has asked the civic body to file a reply on actor's petition.


The actress had sought a stay on it from the Bombay High Court. Earlier on Wednesday, the civic agency had carried out the demolition citing 'illegal construction'.


The 33-year-old knocked on HC doors on Wednesday, challenging the notice issued by the Mumbai civic body for 'illegal construction' at her Bandra office, and sought a stay on the demolition process.

"We filed a petition this morning seeking urgent hearing. We have sought a stay on the demolition process by way of interim relief," Ranaut's advocate Rizwan Siddiqui told PTI.

He said the High Court is likely to take up the plea for hearing during the course of the day.

The actress, who left her Himachal home for Mumbai on Wednesday morning, took to social media to share pictures of the (BMC) officials demolishing the office. And this gave the actress fresh ammunition to invoke the 'Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir' reference, again, as she critiqued the civic body's high-handed behaviour towards her.

"I am never wrong and my enemies prove again and again this is why my Mumbai is POK now," Ranaut wrote in her tweet.


Times Now shared visuals of her Bandra office, surrounded by the BMC officials and a bulldozer.

In another tweet, Ranaut shared images of the BMC officials at her home. The 33-year-old wrote that she 'promised to give blood' for Maharashtra pride and that her spirit will 'only rise higher and higher'.


On Tuesday, the BMC had filed a caveat in a local court, saying that it should be heard first if Ranaut challenges a stop- work notice issued to her.

Meanwhile, the Maharashtra government on Tuesday said that the police will probe allegations made by actor Adhyayan Suman that she took drugs. On Wednesday, Home Minister Anil Deshmukh said that the Mumbai Police will probe the same

Ranaut had recently said that she feared the Mumbai Police more than the "movie mafia", and would prefer security either from Himachal Pradesh or the Centre. She then engaged in a bitter war of words with the Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut, after which, she was given Y+ security. She also thanked Union Home Minister in a tweet for providing her with the security cover.