Mumbai, Jul 19: A day after BMC served notice to Lilly Mendosa, who is the mother of RJ Malishka, after breeding spots for mosquitoes were found at her Bandra Pali Hill road house, questions have been raised over timing of the notice.
The BMC clarified that it was a routine check which they conduct throughout Mumbai, and the official who served notice to Lilly Mendosa was not even aware who was staying there.
"Linkage of this notice to political issue is not good. Our local officials were conducting routine check of societies. We have served notice to some Agwal on first floor of same building where Lilly Mendosa stays. So we have not sent notice only to Ms Mendosa alone," said Rajan Narignekar, head of pesticides department.
BMC has started taking serious preventive measures against Dengue, malaria and other diseases caused by mosquitoes. So far BMC has sent notices to 8,744 people in which 432 people have appeared in front of metropolitan magistrate. So far BMC has recovered fine of Rs 20,04,600.
"Notice to Lilly Mendosa was served under 381B. Now metropolitan magistrate will send summons to her for hearing and there metropolitan magistrate will decide the amount of fine. It's upto her to accept her offense in front of metropolitan magistrate or not. In such offense fine range is from Rs 2000 to Rs 10,000 but that magistrate will decide," said Rajan Narignekar.
RJ Malishka had come up with a video which talked about Mumbai rains and BMC, but the video did not go down well with Shiv Sena, who has been ruling BMC since last 25 years, and which has asked the BMC Commissioner to file a Rs 500 crore defamation suit against Pvt FM channel which created this video.
"Our corporators have asked BMC to take legal action against Radio Channel. That video is an insult to BMC and its workers who work day and night to keep Mumbai on track. Shiv Sena or BMC is not at all targeting Malishka and notice sent to her about dengue mosquitoes was part of routine check. Why can't you people appreciate the work of BMC," said Kishori Pendenakar, Shiv Sena corporator.
While Shiv Sena is criticising Malishka for her video on BMC, its alliance partner, BJP, on the other hand came to her rescue.
BJP Mumbai chief Ashish Shelar tweeted and appreciated Malishka's efforts to express Mumbai's problem. In a tweet Shelar wrote, "It is Brave of Malishka to come out of comfort zone and apply her creativity to express Mumbai's problem."
Neither RJ Malishka or her mother Lilly Mendosa were available to comments.
It has been seen in recent past that those who raised their voice against BMC would always face some action. First it was comedian actor Kapil Sharma and now RJ Malishka.
BMC might say that it is not targeting anyone, but their actions speak something else.
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