If all goes as planned then Vastu Cnetral, the building located in the silent bylanes of Dadar west, may soon become one of the busiest buildings in the neighbourhood. 

The building located hardly 500 meters from Shiv Sena Bhawan on the G North Office road, may become the Headquarters of the Shiv Sena led by Eknath Shinde. According to a senior party functionary from Shinde camp, two floors in the building is what the Shinde camp is eyeing and for the same negotiations are in final stages.

When contacted Sada Sarvankar, Shiv Sena MLA from Mahim, now a member of Shinde camp he confirmed that they have finalised a party office within the vicinity of Dadar-Prabhadevi area, and it would be close to 15,000 sq ft. However, Sarvankar refused to divulge the name of the building citing that negotiations were in the final stage and will be registered before Pitrapaksha. Pitrapaksh will begin on September 1

A senior leader from the Shiv Sena led by Shinde said that they were in talks for three different locations of which one has been finalised and it is Vastu Central. “The two floors measuring around 15,000 sq ft are finalised and negotiations are in the last stage.” 

The building is hardly 500 meters and three minutes walking distance from Shiv Sena bhawan and is just behind the Kohinoor Square building. This is ground plus five storey building and the ground and first floor are completely vacant, and connected by an internal staircase, the second floor is occupied by small offices and a clinic, the third floor has a cooperative bank, whereas the fourth and fifth floor has offices, but hard to make out whether they were operational. 

The office that the Shinde Sena is planning to occupy will be on rent and not an outright purchase. According to a real estate broker from the Shivaji Park area, the ongoing rent in the area is between Rs 140-145 sq ft, whereas buildings like that of Kohinoor and The Ruby Mill demand a premium and have a higher rental. 

When asked Sarvankar if the building where the office will come up be called Sena Bhawan, Sarvankar refuted the claim and said it will be a regular party office which they want for administration purposes. 

This reporter visited the office of the developer at the same building but couldn’t find anyone, the security informed that the developers visits the building.

Also Read: All about Patra Chawl, Sanjay Raut & ED

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As a journalist who has covered Mumbai and it’s real estate sector for close to two decades, whenever I hear Patra Chawl, otherwise known as Siddharth Nagar, the faces of hundreds of residents flash in front of me. Today I write again as Patra Chawl has become the major reason for ED knocking the doors of Sanjay Raut.

In the last one decade or more, many residents of Patra Chawl located in Mumbai’s Goregaon area have contacted me, to write their ordeal and I did too. Let’s go back in history, almost 15 years ago, in 2008 MHADA got into a tri-partie agreement with a private developer named Guru Ashish Constructions and the tenants society comprising of 672 tenants of the Chawl.

Spread over 47 acre of land, the builder who turned greedy, instead of rehabilitating the tenants started looking for his personal profits, he started selling the saleable portions first, including selling FSI belonging to the land was sold to 9 different developers.

Meanwhile, severs tenants started approaching MHADA as by 2014 as rents to many of them had stopped. For those out of Mumbai, and reading this when a developer takes over a redevelopment project he pays rent to the society members till he has constructed and hands over them the possession of their house.

Reports suggest that since ED started it’s investigation it found that Pravin Raut, an alleged close associate of Sanjay Raut, and also of some directors of Guru Ashish Constructions had started misleading MHADA within a few years of the agreement. It is pegged that Pravin Raut allegedly sold the floor space index (FSI) to nine private developers, collecting Rs 901.79 crore. The developer is allowed to sell the FSI no doubt but only after he has constructed and rehabilitated the tenants and in this case since 2008 till date the tenants are awaiting their homes.

Most tenants hail from middle class community and have been actually suffering because they lost their home to a developer who had promised them rent and a home back. However, they received none. I wouldn’t be wrong to say that most of these tenants hail from the Maharashtrian community, of which Sanjay Raut claims to be the biggest leader of.

Coming back to Sanjay Raut reports further claim that ED has stated that Pravin Raut an alleged close aide of Sanjay Raut received Rs 100 crore from real estate company and then it was allegedly diverted to various accounts of his alleged close associates, and even family members. Sanjay Raut’s name has already featured as his alleged close aide several times now.

Another report suggests that ED has alleged that as early as 2010 just two years of the agreement, Rs 83 lakh, was allegedly transferred to Sanjay Raut’s wife Varsha Raut, who apparently used the money to buy a flat in Dadar.

The other allegation is that around eight plots of land were purchased at Alibaug in the name of Varsha Raut and another woman Swapna Patkar. The last name may ring a bell, for that go to twitter and look for it.

The builder who was only interested in profit had even allegedly duped several home buyers, by selling them homes in the building.

It is believed that the Patra Chawl scam is of no less than Rs 1000 crore and is a classic example of making the poor common citizens suffer and the nexus of Politicians-Builder-Babu who made hoards of money.

The investigation should also move in the offices of MHADA and those officials who were suppose to be accountable to get these tenants a home but failed.

Earlier this year, MHADA, the state’s housing body had announced that it will be constructing homes for the 672 tenants of Siddharth Nagar or Patra Chawl and give them homes measuring 650 square feet. The inauguration programme for the same was attended by then Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and NCP chief Sharad Pawar. Sanjay Raut is undoubtedly close to both of them.

Also Read: Sanjay Raut’s Property Attached by ED

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By Varun Singh

This news is not related to politics, but interesting real estate story because it’s related to politics.

Let me tell you that MHADA last week concluded the lottery of 1204 tenements and plots in Aurangabad.

For these available homes MHADA received more than 11,000 applications.

Sandipanrao Bhumare the ShivSena MLA from Paithan currently lodged in Guwahati hotel along with the rebel MLAs was also one of the applicants.

Finally the lottery was held last week for these homes and while Bhumare is in Guwahati he has managed to win the lottery.

Here’s the details of the home that Sandipanrao Bhumare won in the lottery.

The home that he won is located in Chikhal Thane, Aurangabad and he has applied in the Lower Income Group Category. The quota in which the rebel Sena MLA won the house is the MP/MLA quota.

When contacted Bhumare over the phone, he said,”I will handover the home back to MHADA, I had just applied for the lottery and do not need this home.”

Bhumare along with other 38 ShivSena rebel MLAs has decided to join the Eknath Shinde camp which wants Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray to breakaway from the MVA Alliance.

Since Monday night Maharashtra is facing a political crisis and the ShivSena has seen a major turmoil.

With close to 39 MLAs from ShivSena siding with Eknath Shinde the Uddhav Thackeray camp is going thin every passing day.

The BJP apparently is behind the entire rebellion, however, they aren’t coming out in open, though the MLAs chose both BJP state Gujarat and Assam to rebel.

The lottery news is a good news for Sanipanrao Bhumare who is currently in Guwahati let’s see when he return.

Also Read: Govt changes income slabs for EWS, LIG, MIG and HIG for MHADA Lottery

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By Varun Singh

What may look like a major step by the Enforcement Directorate against the Shiv Sena Leader Sanjay Raut, properties belonging to the politicians family members have been attached.

ED tweeted, “ED has provisionally attached immovable properties of Rs 11Cr under PMLA in Patrachawal redevelopment Project case.The attached assets are in form of lands held by Pravin Raut at Palghar,flat at Dadar of Smt Varsha Raut and plots at Alibaug held by Varsha Raut and Swapna Patkar.”

Immediately after the news related to the attachment broke out, Shiv Sena MP and one of the architect of the Mahavikas Aghadi in Maharashtra tweeted ‘Asatyamev Jayate’.

Raut is considered as the close aide of Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and post the 2019 assembly elections in Maharashtra, he was seen as the man who helped form the alliance of Sena-NCP-Congress.

The action is in connection with a probe into the Rs 1,034-crore floor space index (FSI) fraud at Patra Chawl in Mumbai.

Also Read: Patra Chawl tenants may finally have a home

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The notice to Kangana gave her mere 24 hours, while that to Malhotra specified 7 days period to reply.

This created an uproar many blamed bias, we got Adv Prakkash Rohira a practicing advocate in the Bombay High Court to demystify the legal world to our readers.

He has explained the points in detail, hope this settles the debate, why BMC issued a notice and gave only 24 hours to Kangana.

A notice served under section 351(served to Manish Malhotra) of the Mumbai Municipal Corporation Act 1888, is a notice served on the owner/occupier more like a show cause notice, granting opportunity to the owner occupier to reveal the authorizations/permissions approved by the competent authority for the construction.

A notice served under Section 354A (issued to Kangana) of the Mumbai Municipal Corporation Act 1888, is a notice calling upon the owner/occupier to stop such construction/stop work if the designated officer is satisfied that the construction work has illegally commenced or is illegally ongoing.. 

In the recent Supreme Court of India judgement of Municipal Corporation Of Greater Mumbai vs M/S Sunbeam High Tech Developers dated October 24, 2019, it was held “In every case where a notice Under Section 351 of the B.M.C. Act is issued to a party 7 days time shall be given for submitting the reply. In case the party to whom notice is issued sends the reply with the documents, and shows cause, the Municipal Commissioner or Deputy Municipal Commissioner shall consider the reply and if no sufficient cause is shown, give short reasons for not accepting the contention of the affected party.”

Further, it would be open to the Commissioner to demolish the offending structure 15 days after the order of the Commissioner/Deputy Municipal Commissioner is communicated to the affected person.

Additionally, the court empowers the staff of the Corporation, who if detects the building which is in the process of being constructed, reconstructed or extended without valid permission from the Corporation, power has been granted to the Commissioner to demolish the same by giving a short notice of 24 hours after drawing a panchanama at the site and also by taking photographs of such structure and/or extension. The photographs should indicate the date when the same were taken.

Understanding this aspect of both the sections, it would be seen that action was initiated against Kangana Ranaut’s Bungalow citing work was ongoing under 354A for which only 24 hours notice was given.

Whilst the notice served upon the designer, having observed reason for grounds only under Section 351, granted a 7 day notice to the owner/occupant. 

In my opinion, the law explains and permits both different notices being served upon both the respondents under the appropriate sections.

Based on media reports, it has been claimed that there was “no ongoing construction/work” therefore questioning the need to serve a stop work notice under section 354A and not under section 351 of the Act, which would have granted Kangana Ranaut, sufficient time to revert.

As the matter is before the Bombay High Court for adjudication, Its incorrect to speculate or comment on the outcome.   

Also Read: How Much Kangana Paid For Her Bandra Office?

Ref citations: 

1.      Sopan Maruti Thopte And Ors. vs. Pune Municipal Corporation & Ors. on 9 February, 1996 AIR 1996 Bom 304 

2.      Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai v. Sunbeam High Tech Developers Pvt. Ltd., 2019 SCC Online SC 1389

Disclaimer: The views and opinion expressed in the article solely belong to the author (Adv Prakkash Rohira). They do not purport to reflect the opinions or views of SquareFeatIndia.

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By Varun Singh

As the day progressed on Wednesday, the focus from Kangana Ranaut’s Bandra bungalow, shifted to her Khar residence.

The Bandra bungalow of the actor saw a demolition by the BMC for alleged illegal alterations.

However, as the day passed, the focus shifted towards her residence in Khar.

All this after some misleading tweets came out on social media that, Kangana was issued a notice by the BMC in 2018.

The truth is yes there was a notice issued in 2018 by BMC but not for the bungalow where demolition was carried out.

Instead it was for her Khar residence.

So what is the entire buzz about Kangana’s Khar property? SquareFeatIndia has all the details of this flat.

Kangana on March 8, 2013 bought three flats in the building named Orchid Breeze, located at the junction of 16th and 18th road in Khar.

The three flats are 501, 502 and 503, she paid Rs 5.50 crore Rs 5.25 crore and Rs 3.25 crore for each respectively.

The total amount shelled by the actor was Rs 14 crore for the total area of close to 2,357 square feet.

She bought all the three flats from a firm named Heritage Enbuild Pvt Ltd and paid Rs 70 lakh as stamp duty then.

Heritage Enbuild Pvt Ltd had bought these flats from Nihar Constructions Pvt Ltd on September 29, 2011.

The total value paid by Heritage to Nihar in 2011 was Rs 9 crore for the three flats.

A real estate broker from Bandra aware about the deals said, “Kangana was not the first buyer of these flats. She use to stay in Santacruz before she shifted to Khar.”

This building has flats of Parineeti Chopra, Genelia D’souza, Tajdar Amrohi and other bigwigs.

The 2018 BMC notice issued to the occupant of the flat on fifth floor had stated several alleged unauthorized developments.

However, while talking about the 2018 notice Kangana took to Twitter and said, “This (notice) was not just to me but to entire building and this is not my flat issue but a building issue which builder needs to deal with.”

Also Read: How Much Kangana Paid For Her Bandra Office?

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By Varun singh

The demolition of the alleged illegal structures by BMC inside Kangana Ranaut’s office is grossly illegal. This is what lawyers from the city have pointed out.

Adv Rakesh Singh says, “Act of BMC is grossly illegal, vindictive and nothing less than abuse of brute force, by MVA lead by Shiv Sena who are also in control of BMC.”

Singh further stated, “Just now Bombay High Court stopped further demolition by BMC, but there is already an order of Bombay High court which mandate BMC not to indulge in such acts.”

According to Singh, the bench of three Judges of Bombay High Court, Hon’ble Chief Justice Shri Justice A.A. Sayed, Shri Justice S.S. Shinde and Shri Justice K.K. Tated in emergent situation considering the outbreak of COVID 19 ordered on March 26, 2020 that any orders or decree for eviction, dispossession, demolition already passed by any court/Tribunal/Authority shall remain in abeyance considering the prevalent shut down and other issues.

Singh says, the bench also held that Government as also municipal authorities and other agencies or instrumentalities shall be slow in taking any coercive steps so as to drive the citizen to court of law in the meantime.

On July 15, 2020 the Bombay High Court extended the above order till August 31, 2020 which was subsequently extended till September 30, 2020 by order dated August 31, 2020.

Advocate Vivekanand Gupta says, “BMC cannot demolish any property in view of Covid situation. The Bombay High court has ordered on their own motion, all orders of dispossession / demolition of any court /Tribunal /Authority are in abeyance till September 30.”

Gupta further adds, that the demolition is clear contempt of court. All BMC officers responsible should be behind bars.

Also Read: How Much Kangana Paid For Her Bandra Office?

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By Varun Singh

Kangana Ranaut is in news again, this time for her Bandra office, where the BMC has found some irregularities.

But do you know, how much Kangana had paid to buy this bungalow?

Kangana had bought the bungalow way back in 2017. To be precise documents with squarefeatindia.com reveal that she bought it on September 18, 2017.

Even when she bought the bungalow it was in news, for the price the she had paid.

The bungalow measures a huge 3,075 square feet and is a ground plus three upper floors structure.

Kangana had bought the bungalow from Mumba Consultancy Pvt Ltd. Before she bought it, there use to run a playschool at the same site.

According to documents, the Bandra bungalow is part of Chetak Co-operative housing society ltd, at Pali Hill.

The actress had paid a whooping Rs 20.07 crore for purchasing the bungalow, where the BMC found these violations.

She even paid Rs 1.03 crore as stamp duty and along with the bungalow she got a 565 square feet car parking.

Earlier this year, she even carried out a puja of Manikarnika studio at the same bungalow.

The BMC issued a notice to Kangana Ranaut on Tuesday listing out violations like constructing office cabin in place of toilet and others.

Meanwhile, the action against the actor has been termed as state sponsored terror by many on social media.

Adv Rakesh Singh, tweeted that people should stand for her.

MLA Ameet Satam reminded the BMC to show such swift action against other buildings in the city too.

The actor has been openly speaking against political big wigs and has taken a stand on the Sushant Singh Rajput death.

She has been speaking against the alleged use of drugs in the Bollywood industry too.

The central government has provided the actor with Y Security after certain threat comments against her.

Also Read: Parineeti Finds A Homebuyer During Lockdown

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