There has been much heated discussion among the seven Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) trustees over whether legal fees should be paid for representing five high priests as interveners on behalf of the BPP before the Supreme Court in the so-called "renegade” priests case. The amount of Rs 11,00,000 (US $ 18,333) is small compared to the Rs 3,00,00,000 (US $ 5,00,000) the Bombay apex trust has already frittered on this ego-fuelled litigation (some trustees claim the figure is lower, between two to two-and-a-half crores but no official figure is being divulged).
Two other interveners also supporting the BPP, former trustees......