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The Ballard Pier brawl

The unseemly incident of Bombay’s Parsi leaders skirmishing outside a court house has sent shock waves throughout the community and the city

On entering St George’s Hospital lobby one spied Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) trustee Kersi Randeria seated with his arm in a sling and a partially bloodshot right eye giving a statement to the police. About 15 minutes later, Hormuz Mehta, the lawyer son of the former BPP chairman Dinshaw Mehta and brother of sitting BPP trustee Viraf, was wheeled in supine on a stretcher. Both Randeria and Dinshaw alleged the other started the fracas outside the Metropolitan Magistrate court at Ballard Pier in the afternoon of September 8, 2016 following a court hearing. Both alleged the other taunted them and the......



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