MUMBAI: The state government told the Bombay high court that land allotted to Congress MP Rajiv Shukla's firm BAG Films Educational Society had been returned. But the society lawyer said they have returned it as the terms of the allotment were 'onerous' and could not complied with.
The society claimed Rs 2.2 crore from the state as "refund" for expenses towards rehabilitation of encroachers and security of land. A state lawyer, on being queried by a bench of Chief Justice Mohit Shah and Justice Sanklecha, said it was not.
The court was hearing a PIL filed by Save Open Spaces and its chief Ashoke Pandit about alleged illegal allotment of two plots in Andheri, one reserved for a municipal school to the society in 2008 when Shukla was its office-bearer . The society got the land for a proposed IB school, the PIL said.
Pandit said return of the land was a "victory for residents" and it exposed the "nexus of politicians in the allotment".
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