Mumbai: Woman says owners of popular dairy brand trying to usurp her property

The owners of a popular dairy brand have been booked by the Khar police for allegedly conspiring to grab the property of their neighbour who is the daughter of yesteryear actress Kalpana Mohan Complainant Preeti Mansukhani and the accused who own Punjab Sind Foods India Private Limited and Punjab Sind Premium Dairy live on different floors of Preeti Apartment a fivestorey structure on 18th Khar RoadMansukhani a housemaker said she has been under constant threat from accused Swaranjit Singh Bajaj Jaswinder Singh Bajaj Saheb Bajaj and their driver Kiran and she is worried for the safety of her children and husbandldquoI am not aware an FIR is registered against merdquo said Jaswinder Bajaj who later added ldquoItrsquos a societyrelated issuerdquo But he failed to name the housing societyAs per the FIR registered on June 8 the Mansukhani family often travels abroad and has installed 12 cameras to remotely keep an eye on their property It says the Bajaj family broke seven cameras on June 2 which itself was captured by a CCTV camera Terrified they have temporarily moved to ColabalsquoAttempt during lockdownrsquoMansukhani said the Bajajs made an attempt during the lockdown when they got stuck in Canada ldquoWe learnt that the accused had encroached the terrace whose I am the legal custodian by making a fullfledged gym We wrote many letters to the Bajaj family but they did not pay heed We also wrote to the police and the BMCrdquo she saidMansukhani said the Bajaj family has turned the electric meter area into servant quarters and park their highend bikes thereOn their return the family followed up with civic officials and got the gym dismantled but the Bajaj brothers then allegedly encroached the electric room ldquoThey have recently parked their highend motorcycle in the electric roomhellipWhat if a short circuit takes place The big petrol tank of the motorcycle will aggravate the firerdquo she saidThe complainant said the businessmen turned the electric room into a servant quarter ldquoWe again followed up with the BMC officials and got it demolished this year This irked Bajaj brothersrdquolsquoDevelopment rights with usrsquoMansukhani said her mother Kalpana Mohan was a wellknown actress in the 1960s ldquoShe worked with many actors including Dev Anand Shammi Kapoor Shashi Kapoor and Kishore Kumar In 1963 she purchased a plot on 18th Khar Road and got a bungalowrdquo Mansukhani told middayIn 1986 she said the actress made a development rights agreement DRA with a company called Meghna International Her bungalow is behind the plot which was given for development and later became Preeti Apartment The developer was allowed to sell four floors while the top floor and terrace remained with her mother she saidPreeti Apartment on 18th Khar RoadldquoSince it was a freehold land further development rights on this land remain with our family only And it is very categorically mentioned in many places in the DRA The first floor was sold to Jasjit Singh Bajaj the second floor was sold to a Sindhi family that lives in Dubai and visits India once a year the occupants of the third floor are a peaceful family and the fourth floor was first sold to a person having some political link Since the fourthfloor owner had some attachment with both the brothers Jaswinder Bajaj and Swaranjit Bajaj they gave staying rights to these two brothers on the fourth floorrdquo she saidlsquoItrsquos not a coop societyrsquoMansukhani accused the Bajajs of misrepresenting the place as a cooperative housing society with a fake letterheadldquoThey have hired five bouncers and often hatch a conspiracy to intimidate threaten me and usurp my land rights and my property from me and my family and browbeat me into submission to run away or sell my property to them on any unfavourable termsrdquo she addedldquoBy doing all this constant harassment trespass making illegal structure in terrace creating illegal structure of rooms in open Electric Metre area is nothing but gross violation of BMC rules without any permission or authority and completely encroaching the open compound with highend motorcycles and five to six highend carsrdquo she saidShe said her motherrsquos cars now vintage vehicles have been parked on the premises ldquoIn the CCTV Bajaj was also seen removing these old vehicles of my motherrdquo she said ldquoI got completely terrified seeing these videos as our personal property is under constant threat Hence we approached Khar police station immediately on the same eveningrdquoWhile cops visited the premises on June 3 Mansukhani said the Bajaj family threatened her family in the presence of cops ldquoWe were also manhandled by the Jaswinder Bajaj who spoke rudely with me my son and husbandrdquoldquoThey have been harassing and threatening us We are small fry in this area and in deep contrast the Bajaj family is powerful and often cites big names and musclemen of Bandra to shut our mouths I am thankful to Khar police station senior inspector Mohan Mane for helping us in registering an FIR against Bajaj familyrdquo she saidldquoBased on the complaint of victim we have registered an FIR against four people including Swaranjit Singh Bajaj Jaswinder Bajaj Saheb Bajaj and their driver Kiran under sections 341 wrongful constraint 427 mischief causing damage to the amount of fifty rupees 504 intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace 506 criminal intimidation 120B criminal conspiracy and 34 common intention of IPCrdquo said a police officerWill fight in court AccusedSwaranjit Bajaj said ldquoI am shocked to know that my name is also mentioned in the FIR I have nothing to do with the alleged dispute We have been deprived of parking area as mentioned by the developers They have parked four khatara vehicles with no tyres in the wheels since last 32 yearsrdquoldquoI am a follower of Siddhu Moose Wala and I am not going to bend before anyone They have misused their power by mentioning my name in the FIR whereas I was not in India I have just returned to India after holidaying in Dubai How police can include my name in the FIRrdquo he said About the terrace gym he said ldquoAll the gyms were shut down in the pandemic So I got it made on the terrace which is a common place for all the residents The terrace is not exclusively given to them Mansukhanis I have all the pieces of evidence to prove my innocence and I will fight it in the courtrdquo