Court scraps Ghai-Deshmukh land deal

The Bombay high court has directed Bollywood filmmaker Subhash Ghai to return the 20-acre land, which was allotted to him in 2000 for a film institute in Mumbai, by the Maharashtra government. The court said that the deal to allow Ghai to set up his film institute - Whistling Woods International - was illegal and arbitrary. The court also indicted the then Maharashtra chief and current central minister Vilasrao Deshmukh for misusing his official position as he allotted the land to Ghai.