India, July 10 -- A fourth judge from the Bombay high court has recused himself from hearing a plea filed by the chief executive and managing director of HDFC Bank, Sashidhar Jagdishan, to quash a bribery case registered against him by the trust that manages the city's prominent Lilavati Hospital.

The Lilavati Kirtilal Mehta Medical Trust had alleged that Jagdishan had accepted kickbacks worth Rs.2.05 crore in exchange for providing financial advice to help the hospital's erstwhile trustees, including a certain Chetan Mehta, retain illegal control of the trust. Jagdishan had then approached the high court for quashing the FIR, arguing that it was baseless and malicious.

When the matter came up before a division bench of justices Ravindr...