Mumbai, April 04: Bollywood actress Rani Mukerji
on Friday filed a petition in the Bombay High Court challenging
the Ahmednagar district collector`s order cancelling her
ownership of a plot near Shirdi due to irregularities in the
deal.
The petition filed before the Aurangabad bench of the
Bombay High Court will come up for hearing on April 9.
"There are several discrepancies in the order passed by
the district collector and we disagree on several observations
made in the order," Rani`s lawyer Nanasaheb Chaudhary told
reporters.
The sub divisional officer in January this year passed an
order to cancel the land sale deal and took possession of
Mukerji`s land due to irregularities in the deal.
In December 2005, the actress had paid Rs 33 lakh for the
non-transferable land and paid a stamp duty of Rs 1.32 lakh
for registration.
The title, however, could not be transferred to her name,
as it belonged to a farmer. According to the order passed by
the sub divisional officer, the purchased land was an
agricultural land and thus it required special permission from
the government to transfer it to a non-farmer.
According to Chaudhary, only the divisional commissioner
is empowered to conduct an inquiry under the land ceiling
revision case.
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