Last month, the Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC) rejected Ali Akbar Adamjee Peerbhoy’s petition on behalf of his family for 75 per cent concession on their electricity bills as compensation or royalty for his grandfather Abdul Hussein Adamjee Peerbhoy’s devotion to the development of Matheran in the early 1900s.

Matheran was a barren land before late Abdul Hussein Adamjee Peerbhoy played an instrumental in the development of this hill station, which was a popular haunt of the Britishers to beat the summer’s heat during the Raj.