MUMBAI MIRROR (September 25, 2015)

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has served notices to three Bollywood actors, Anil Kapoor, Juhi Chawla and Jeetendra, and singer Amit Kumar after their residences in suburban Juhu and Malabar Hill were found to be breeding grounds for mosquitoes.

From January 1 to August 31, 13,587 breeding grounds for mosquitoes were identified and 866 people served notices for not complying with the guidelines and overlooking preventive measures issued by the BMC. The civic body takes action and levies fine under Section 381 of the Bombay Municipal Act which varies from Rs 2000 to 10,000 depending upon the gravity of the case. A fine of Rs 23.38 lakh has been recovered from erring persons.

"The notices were issued after an inspecting team conducted a check at their residences and found out that the bungalows of these celebrities were the breeding grounds for this deadly disease," informed Rajan Naringrekar, insecticide officer of the BMC.

The insecticide teams also inspected Amitabh Bachchan four bungalows, along with the homes of actors Shabana Azmi, Shilpa Shetty and Ranjeet, filmmakers Mahesh Bhatt and Sanjay Khan, and cleared them after they were found to have taken preventive measures.