Mumbai, June 23: BJP leader Kirit Somaiya filed a public-interest petition in Bombay High Court, seeking a court-monitored investigation into a property owned by Rashmi Thackeray, the wife of Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray. The property is at Alibag in Raigad district.
Somaiya sought court’s intervention to determine true nature of illegalities and irregularities allegedly committed on a property in Alibag. The petition listed the CM, his wife, MLA Ravindra Waikar and his wife, Manisha Waikar, as defendants.
It claimed that property tax receipts suggested existence of a structure that was deliberately covered up by the CM and the MLA in their affidavits submitted before elections under Representation of the People Act, adding that this constituted “an electoral offence and corrupt practice”.
Somaiya claimed the permanent structure on the property was constructed without obtaining sanction and that since it was situated within 100 metres of the coastline, the construction was in contravention of the Coastal Regulatory Zone rules.