The ball is back in the court of the Parsi community after the Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Limited (MMRCL) agreed to follow recommendations in the Veermata Jijabai Technical Institute's (VJTI) report to reduce the impact of Metro III work on the city's Atash Behrams. The Metro authority submitted its response in the Bombay High Court on Thursday, rubbishing the community's questions about the report's authenticity.

mid-day had reported earlier this week that petitioner Jamshed Sukhadwalla, a structural engineer, had questioned the VJTI report, pointing out that the VJTI had relied on data provided by the MMRCL instead of doing independent analysis. He had demanded that the report be scrapped, adding that the institute did not heed any of the arguments put forward by the Parsi community.