Mumbai: Amid the row over alleged conversion of a residential building into a hotel in Juhu, actor Sonu Sood met NCP supremo Sharad Pawar at his residence on Wednesday.

An NCP functionary said the meeting lasted an hour and Sood briefed Pawar on the controversy over his hotel.

While the exact reason for Sood’s meeting with Pawar was not known, it raised eyebrows since it came days after the BMC filed a police complaint against Sood for allegedly converting a six-storey residential building in Juhu into a hotel without the required permissions.

The BMC had asked the police to take cognisance of the offence under the Maharashtra Region and Town Planning Act for unauthorised additions, alterations and change of user.

“We don’t know the exact reason for the meeting. But it is learnt that Sood did talk about the way the BMC had issued a notice to him and filed a police complaint. Sood reiterated that he had not done anything illegal and explained how the hotel had been used for housing Covid-19 warriors during the pandemic,” the NCP functionary said.

The BMC on Wednesday urged the Bombay high court to dismiss the actor’s petition seeking to restrain it from carrying out demolition at his property. The actor moved the high court after the Dindoshi city civil court refused to restrain the BMC from taking action against alleged unauthorised alterations at the building on A B Nair Road.