{"id":360715,"date":"2026-04-02T19:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T19:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/360715\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T19:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T19:19:08","slug":"sonali-bendre-goldie-behl-accused-of-land-encroachment-by-pune-farmer-actress-calls-it-false-and-extortion-attempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/360715\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonali Bendre, Goldie Behl accused of land encroachment by Pune farmer; actress calls it \u2018false\u2019 and \u2018extortion attempt\u2019 |"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SonaliA farmer from Pune district has filed a civil lawsuit against actor Sonali Bendre and her filmmaker husband Goldie Behl, accusing them of land encroachment and \u201cmafia-style\u201d intimidation. The actor, however, has denied the allegations, calling the case a false attempt to extort money. A farmer from Pune district has filed a civil lawsuit against actor Sonali Bendre<\/a> and her filmmaker husband Goldie Behl<\/a>, accusing them of land encroachment and \u201cmafia-style\u201d intimidation. The actress, however, has denied the allegations, calling the case a false attempt to extort money.<\/p>\n

Farmers allege illegal takeover and intimidation<\/p>\n

According to PTI, the complainants, Chandrakant Balu Shinde (50) and his mother Kamalbai (75), have claimed that the celebrity couple used their social influence and allegedly sought help from local police to forcibly take possession of their 30 guntha (over 32,000 sq ft) land in Uksan village in Maval taluka.The suit was filed last month before a civil court in Vadgaon Maval through advocate Vanraj Shinde. The matter is scheduled for its next hearing on April 24.<\/p>\n

Claim of decades-old tenancy rights<\/p>\n

According to the suit, the Shinde family has been cultivating the land as \u201cprotected tenants\u201d since the 1940s. They have alleged that their names were removed from revenue records in the 1980s without any notice.The dispute, as per the complaint, began after the original landowners allegedly sold the property to a local individual in 2012. A portion of this land was later sold to Goldie Behl in March 2021.The mother-son duo has termed these transactions \u201cillegal and void\u201d, claiming that their tenancy rights were never legally terminated. <\/p>\n

Watch<\/p>\n

Sonali Bendre Hits Back At Backlash Over Favouring Autophagy! <\/p>\n

Allegations of threats and police bias<\/p>\n

The plaintiffs have also alleged intimidation and misuse of authority. According to the suit, on December 14, 2025, Sonali Bendre and Goldie Behl allegedly arrived at the site with workers and heavy machinery to begin unauthorised construction.When Kamalbai attempted to intervene, she was allegedly threatened. The complaint further claims that police officials present at the site warned the family of being framed in false theft cases if they continued to \u201charass\u201d the couple. <\/p>\n

Sonali Bendre denies allegations<\/p>\n

Reacting to the claims, Sonali Bendre maintained that her name does not appear on any of the land purchase documents related to the Maval property.Calling the case baseless, her lawyer Raju Shinde said, \u201cThis is a false case orchestrated solely to extort money.\u201dThe matter will now proceed in court as both sides prepare to present their arguments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A farmer from Pune district has filed a civil lawsuit against actor Sonali Bendre and her filmmaker husband…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[190034,156,190037,190033,190035,409,111,139,69,190036,87183,190039,190040,190032,190038],"class_list":{"0":"post-360715","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-celebrity-intimidation-case","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-goldie-behl","11":"tag-goldie-behl-legal-dispute","12":"tag-land-encroachment-allegations","13":"tag-movies","14":"tag-new-zealand","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz","17":"tag-pune-farmer-lawsuit","18":"tag-sonali-bendre","19":"tag-sonali-bendre-denies-land-encroachment-claims","20":"tag-sonali-bendre-land-dispute","21":"tag-sonali-bendre-land-encroachment-case","22":"tag-uksan-village-land-conflict"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}