Retired NRI, neighbour Salman Khan lock horns over plot in Raigad

An unseemly row has erupted between a retired NRI from the US Ketan Kakkad and his neighbour Bollywood megastar Salman Khan over a plot of land in the picturesque environs of Raigad Taking strong umbrage at Kakkads recent social media outbursts the actor has hit back with a civil defamation suit against his nextdoor neighbour besides Google YouTube Facebook Twitter and other social platform content creatorsThe matter pertains to the mid1990s when the young NRI Kakkad planned to buy a tiny plot of land in Raigad to build his retirement nest and the seller company introduced him to the legendary Bollywood writer Salim Khan The celeb Khans assured Kakkad that the locality was good and they would love to have him as their neighbour instead of some other snoopy types as the hilly plot eyed by the NRI overlooks the familys 100acre Arpita FarmsConvinced the pleased Kakkad bought the 250 acre plot in 1996 and later built a tiny ecofriendly Lord Ganesh Temple on it and years later even an environmentfriendly 120square feet thatched hut to occasionally go and get a breather thereThe two neighbours got along jovially for over two decades and whenever the Kakkads visited their tiny property they were accorded a warm welcome by the Khan clan with refreshments and beverages at the Arpita Farms where Salman Khan was bitten by a nonvenomous snake on December 26 2021 on the eve of his 56th birthday giving palpitations to the whole nationIn 2014 Kakkad retired and returned to India eager to build a small cottage along with wife Anita and probably an ashram in the future and meditate before their tiny temple Kakkad claimed that in December 2019 the Khan family which is renowned for worshipping the elephantheaded God during Ganeshotsav every year suddenly barred his entry to his propertyDespite repeated pleas we are not allowed to go there The local officials of the Forest and Revenue departments are also not helping us out rued Kakkad Left with no options Kakkad resorted to venting his ire via social media and even gave some interviews on YouTube raising the hackles of the Bajrangi Bhaijaan superstarKhan hit back with a stern Short Cause Suit on January 8 against Kakkad and the others accusing them of malafide intentions to damage his goodwill and reputation by hurling absolutely baseless false and unwarranted allegations through the law firm DSK Legal of lawyer Anand Desai and his team The matter came up before Additional Sessions Judge Anil Laddhad who adjourned it to January 21 on a plea for time by Kakkads lawyers Abha Singh and Aditya PratapKhan also charged the social media giants of continuously loadinguploading posting and publishing various malicious and defamatory content against him and his family causing grave and irreparable harm loss and injury with the provocative unsubstantiated content without a shred of truth arising out of personal vendetta and illwillThe actor contended that Kakkads plot was reportedly cancelled by the Maharashtra government as illegal for which he blamed the Khan family alleged that the superstar harboured underworld links with the DCompany the absconder mafia don Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar and that illegalcriminal activities were going on at Arpita FarmsTaking objection to certain utterances by Kakkad the megastar pointed out that the insinuation that he had illegally usurpedgrabbed the Lord Ganesh Temple interalia intends to cause communal violence in society In the suit Khan sought a permanent order to bar Kakkad and the other defendants from directlyindirectly loadinguploading postingreposting tweetingretweeting giving media interviews corresponding communicating hosting issuing printing publishing disseminating circulating further in any manner vide any medium such defamatory malicious or scandalous contentKhan urged the court to direct the social media players to forthwith withdraw andor recall take down blockrestrictdisable all content defamatory to him in the present case from all other mediums where they are hosted or exist He demanded that Kakkad and three others Sandeep Phogat Paras Bhat and Ujjwal Narain must tender an unconditional apology via their media and cough out the legal suit costsKakkad denied the superstars contentions and said there is a misunderstanding which will be sorted out and expressed his keenness to go to his land and build his small dream house there Presently Anita and I are cooped up in this one roomkitchen flat in Malad both suffer from comorbidities so cannot step out much and long for our opentosky plothellip We have absolutely no animosity against the Khans or anybody and shall await the legal outcome said KakkadThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever