Actor Sonu Sood has not got relief from the Bombay High Court in the alleged unauthorized construction case.
The single-judge bench of Justice Prithviraj Chavan dismissed the petition, granting no relief to the actor against the notice of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation notice in the illegal construction case. Now, this means that BMC can take action against Sonu Sood.
The BMC issued a notice to Sonu Sood in October last year for alleged illegal construction. Sood had approached the High Court against that notice.
During the hearing in the Bombay High Court on January 12, BMC called Sonu Sood a “habitual criminal”. The municipality had said in the court that actors have been continuously breaking the rules in the case of illegal construction.
The BMC had alleged in its notice that Sood had made structural changes in the six-storey Shakti Sagar residential building and converted it into a commercial hotel.
Sood had initially challenged that notice in the civil court in December 2020, but the court dismissed his petition. He then moved Bombay High Court. The High Court had asked BMC to file an affidavit in the matter.
In the reply filed to the appeal of Sood, it was stated that the application for interim stay was well thought out strategy to continue running his illegal commercial hotel which has been constructed and modified contrary to the sanctioned building plan and in violation of law.
The municipal body said in its affidavit,
“The petitioners are habitual criminals and want to earn money from unauthorized work. Therefore, he once again illegally constructed the demolished part without the permission of the department so that it can be used as a hotel.”
The BMC had initiated preliminary action for illegal construction in September 2018, but Sood continued illegal construction. Action was taken to demolish the unauthorized construction on November 12, 2018.