Veteran actor Saira Banu alleged on Wednesday, 13 December, that a builder was threatening to oust her and husband Dilip Kumar from their Pali Hill property in Mumbai.
Banu wrote to Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis requesting him to protect them from builder Samir Bhojwani, who had reportedly faked some documents and had threatened the elderly couple regularly to hand over their property to him.
Here’s a copy of the letter:
In August this year, the Supreme Court had ruled in favour of Kumar in the long-pending case over his 2,412 square yard property in Bandra in Mumbai. The actor had an agreement with a real estate firm in 2006 by which they were supposed to develop the property. But no construction had taken place.
The Supreme Court restored possession of the property to the actor, against which he would have to pay Rs 20 crore to Prajita Developers Pvt Ltd. The realty firm had appealed for the enforcement of the agreement.
A bench of Justices J Chelameswar and S Abdul Nazeer turned down their plea saying that they didn’t “see any justification for the demand” and pointed out that the thespian actor would be unjustly facing financial loss if the agreement was allowed to continue.
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