India, June 27 -- Three judges of the Bombay high court (HC) have recused themselves from hearing a plea filed by the chief executive officer (CEO) and managing director (MD) of HDFC Bank, Sashidhar Jagdishan, to quash a First Information Report (FIR) registered against him at Bandra police station on June 8, based on a complaint by the Lilavati Kirtilal Mehta Medical Trust.

The Trust, which owns and manages the prominent Lilavati Hospital in Mumbai, had alleged that Jagdishan had accepted kickbacks worth Rs.2.05 crore in exchange for providing financial advice to help the Chetan Mehta Group, erstwhile trustees of the hospital, to retain illegal control over the Trust's governance. Jagdishan had approached HC for quashing the FIR on June...