Summary:
MUMBAI: Parsis who moved Bombay high court against metro work under two Atash Behrams submitted a rejoinder on Monday seeking to debunk the VJTI report, which says there will be no adverse effect of tunnelling. It says that “excavation for cut and cover at Kalbadevi station near the corner of Wadiaji Atash Behram shall be carried out only by drilling line holes upto bottom for the plan area of 3 by 3 metre’’. The petitioners had in May, first raised objections to the proposed tunnelling and alignment of the underground Metro-3 route as it goes below the consecrated highest grade fire at these two, more than a century old heritage Atash Behrams near Princess Street in south Mumbai. The petitioners had argued the religious tenets must not be violated. Further excavation shall be by either “mechanical means" or "control blasting"..