The decision to permit conversion of leave and license (L&L) agreements into tenancies, taken by the three Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) majority trustees on the eve of the trusteeship elections for seven seats, "broadly amounts to a premeditated inducement to voters,” ruled the chief election commissioner (CEC) Cmde Aspi Marker (retd) on April 8, 2022.
"Considering that this proposal to convert L&L into tenancy was a matter of discussion for so many years in the past, passing the resolution on February 21, 2022 just the evening before the final hearing of the election petition was to commence the next morning, does......