The tussle between the current chairman of the Bombay Parsi Punchayet, Yazdi Desai, and former board member Dinshaw Mehta, which has been in the public forum for the last couple of years, has now taken a legal turn.

On October 19, the Metropolitan Magistrate gave an order to issue summons to Mehta and the management of a publication after Desai filed a criminal defamation suit against them in August for publishing a series of 'defamatory' articles.