Mumbai: Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut said to the BMC officials that if you break my residency in Mumbai, my spirit will only get stronger. She reacted after the BMC officials warned her, that her office in Mumbai could be demolished over alleged illegal construction.

Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh said he will look into the allegations. However, in what appears to be an escalation of the row between Ms Ranaut and the Shiv Sena, the party’s MLA Pratap Sarnaik asked the Maharashtra government to look into a “drugs angle” involving the actor, as reported by a tabloid in an interview with actor Adhyayan Suman.

The Home Minister also said that “I have told the Mumbai Police to look into details of a media report that Kangana Ranaut was in a relationship with actor Adhyayan Suman, who had claimed in an old interview that she takes drugs and had also forced him to do so. A request for investigation was submitted by MLAs Sunil Prabhu and Pratap Sarnaik”.

BMC said its move against Ms Ranaut is not a “political grouse”, following her war of words with leaders of the ruling party in Maharashtra. The BMC is controlled by the Shiv Sena. Questions have been raised on the timing of the notice to Ms Ranaut over alleged illegal construction. Officials said the building violations include what was supposed to be a toilet converted into office space and new toilets being constructed along the side of a staircase. Ms Ranaut has been asked to show the permission letter for these constructions. She said the BMC did not raze the building due to criticism it has faced from the public.