Mithun Chakraborty Malad Property Controversy: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has issued a show cause notice to Bollywood actor and BJP leader Mithun Chakraborty for allegedly constructing unauthorised ground-storey structures at a plot situated at Erangle village in Malad's Madh area. Meanwhile, on Saturday, the actor refuted the allegations, stating that they have no unauthorised structures. "I have no unauthorised structures. The notices have been sent to one and all. We are sending a reply to the BMC," Chakraborty told The Indian Express. Issued on May 10, the BMC notice has directed the actor to furnish sufficient reason for the alterations, failing which the structures will be razed at his own risk while the civic authority has also warned of prosecution. Last week, the civic body had launched an eviction drive in Madh, after nearly 130 unauthorised constructions including structures like bungalows, erected on the basis of forged building plans, were identified in the area. Having already demolished nearly nine structures in areas such as Erangle village on May 9, senior officials said that all the 130 structures, which had been erected in Madh over the past one year, will be removed by May 31. Of the several constructions which had come under the BMC's scanner were the structures erected at a plot identified near the Hiradevi Mandir along the Bhaskar Bhopi Marg in Erangle village in Madh. Inspections revealed that the unauthorised work on the plot encompassed two one-plus-mezzanine-storey structures alongside one ground storey structure as well as three temporary 10*10 units with brick walls, wooden planks, glass partition wall and an AC sheet roof. According to civic officials, these constructions at the plot had been established without taking permission from the competent authority, nudging the BMC to issue a show cause notice to Chakraborty on May 10. Pointing to the constructions sprawled over the plot, the BMC said that the executed work stood in contravention to the provisions of Section 337, 342 and 347 of the Mumbai Municipal Corporation (MMC) Act of 1888. Directing the actor to show sufficient cause within a period of seven days since the notice's receipt, the civic body has asked the actor to justify why the "said building or work shall not be removed or altered or pulled down or the use of the premises be restored." The notice states that if the cause is not sufficient, the building will be pulled down at the owner's risk and cost. Furthermore, the actor, the BMC has warned, may also be subjected to prosecution. As per Section 475A of the municipal action, the act is punishable with penalties and imprisonment. The show cause letter, according to the civic body, has been issued as per provisions of Section 351 (1A) of the the Mumbai Municipal Corporation Act.
