The Supreme Court yesterday recommended that former Chief Justice of India SH Kapadia should mediate in a dispute of the Bombay Parsi Panchayet (BPP) over two priests who were banned for allegedly performing allegedly unsanctioned ceremonies. The ban was quashed by the Bombay high court in 2011, and appealed by the BPP to the Supreme Court, having spent more than Rs 3 crore on litigation expenses.

The BPP chairman Dinshaw Mehta said: “We are bleeding at the moment. In the last two months we have spent over Rs 30 lakh just to get dates for the next hearing.” He added that Kapadia would be a good candidate because he was a Parsi, who’d be more easily accepted as a mediator by the community. [Mumbai Mirror]