Three-and-a-half months prior to the Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) trusteeship election, notices were placed in the Parsi Times weekly of March 17 and the Jam-e-Jamshed issue of March 18 for the July 1 voting. The intention may have been to stymie any effort by the Muncherji Cama camp to move the courts pleading for a three-year extension to his trusteeship term which is to expire on July 5, 2018.
There is a dispute over whether Cama’s resignation from the BPP board is valid or not. Once the election process has began, the courts do not normally favor intervening. The......