Rani MukerjiÂ´s High Court Court Appeal To Be Heard Next Wednesday

Rani MukerjiÂ´s High Court Court Appeal To Be Heard Next Wednesday
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The Bombay High Court bench in Aurangabad is likely to hear actress Rani Mukerji's petition challenging the cancellation of her ownership of a piece of land near Shirdi in Maharashtra on April 9. Rani as challenged the order of Shrirampur Sub Divisional Officer, asking her to pay a penalty for buying an agricultural land or surrender the land in Ningaonkovali village, on the border of Nasik and Ahmednagar districts.

Justice Bhushan Gavai on Friday posted the petition for next Wednesday, after Rani's father Ram Mukerji told the court that the date suited him. Mukerji had filed an affidavit and the relevant land deal documents before the court registrar on Thursday.

According to officials, earlier there was a sugar factory on the land that was subsequently closed. Since the factory had excess land, the government took it over in accordance with the Urban Land Ceiling Act and handed it over to the Maharashtra State Farming Corporation.

As the land remained unused for a long time, the Maharashtra State Farming Corporation sold it to the original owner, a farmer who worked in a hotel in Shirdi town. From the farmer, Rani bought the plot in December 2005 for Rs.3.3 million.

However, when she applied for registration of the plot in her name, the revenue department refused permission and stressed that as it was agricultural land, only a farmer could buy it.

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