The Parsi community was left in shock on Monday after the Supreme Court allowed MMRCL to continue construction work of the tunnel under the Anjuman and Wadiaji Atash Behrams. With the next hearing scheduled for January 4, the Parsis feel any hope of altering the alignment of the tunnel is as good as lost as a substantial portion of the work will be completed by then.

Based on the statement of chief petitioner Jamshed Sukhadwalla, after hearing the arguments for an hour-and-a-half, SC decided to allow MMRCL to continue tunnelling. "While the court relieved Metro of its oral direction of stopping all tunnelling work, the court wants to monitor the impact of the work for the next three weeks. Before the next hearing, Metro has to provide a detailed affidavit before it can do controlled blasting and other station work," he said.