India, Feb. 23 -- The Bombay High Court on Friday issued a notice to former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh for allegedly making defamatory statements against the Lilavati Kirtilal Mehta Medical Trust, which runs the Lilavati Hospital and Research Centre in Bandra, and its trustees.

The trust had approached the court seeking urgent injunctive reliefs and penalty for defamation against Singh, who made the alleged statements after being removed as executive director of Lilavati Hospital on February 5.

Singh is at the centre of the latest fallout between trustees of the LKMMT, as he and permanent trustee Rajesh Mehta are pitted against the latter's brothers and permanent trustees Prashant and Rajiv Mehta.

Prashant and Rajiv Meh...