India, July 17 -- A division bench of the Bombay high court has rapped the FE Dinshaw Trust, headed by industrialist Nusli Wadia, for indulging in "an elite form of extortion" and "a manifest abuse of the process of law" to stall the transfer of ownership of two plots in Malad to a construction firm.

The division bench of justices AS Gadkari and Kamal Khata dismissed the trust's appeal against the order of a single-judge bench regarding conveyance of the two plots, measuring 69,709 square meters, saying, "There is no error either in law or on facts".

The bench also rapped the trustees, including Maureen N Wadia and Rajesh Batra, for initiating "the luxury litigation, aimed solely at frustrating and delaying the plaintiff's (Bastion's) l...