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Saturday, Mar 19, 2005

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Vinod Khanna told to vacate bungalow

By Our Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI, MARCH 18. The Delhi High Court today refused to grant more time to Bollywood star and Bharatiya Janata Party Member of Parliament from Gurdaspur in Punjab, Vinod Khanna, to vacate his present official bungalow in New Delhi and shift to a new one here.

Dismissing his plea, Justice Geeta Mittal asked Mr. Khanna to approach the Directorate of Estates for relief or ask the Minister who had been allotted the bungalow now to allow him to stay there for some more days.

Mr. Khanna had to vacate the bungalow at 4 Uma Shankar Dikshit Marg - which had been allotted to him when he was a Union Minister -- by March 15 as directed by the High Court on a petition by the Directorate of Estates seeking a direction to the MP for vacating the accommodation.

The High Court had allowed Mr. Khanna to stay on in the bungalow till March 15 subject to his giving an undertaking to the Estate that he would vacate it by that date.

However, Mr. Khanna again moved the Court one day before the expiry of the time limit asking for an extension on the ground that the new bungalow allotted to him at AB-8 on Purana Quila Road was uninhabitable as it was yet to be properly furnished.

However, counsel for the Union Government opposed his plea saying that the new bungalow had been furnished as per the requirements of the allottee and was quite habitable.

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