MUMBAI, 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 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 Ravindra Ghuge and Gautam Ankhad on Wednesday, the latter recused himself from hearing it, without explaining why. After both parties did not raise an objection to the recusal, it was decided that the matter would be placed before another bench that justice Ankhad is not a part of. "Since brother Justice Gautam A. Ankhad recuses from hearing these matters, these matters would not be placed before the bench of which one of us is a member," said justice Ghuge. Three other judges had earlier recused themselves from hearing Jagdishan's plea. The case was first listed before a bench of justices Ajey Gadkari and Rajesh Patil on June 18, the day Jagdishan moved the high court to quash the FIR. Justice Patil, however, recused himself from hearing the matter. "My brother (justice Patil) does not take up matters relating to HDFC," justice Gadkari had said, without elaborating further. The matter was then mentioned before a bench led by justice Sarang Kotwal. However, he, too, recused himself without providing an explanation. On June 26, when the matter was listed before a bench of justices MS Sonak and Jitendra Jain, the latter disclosed that he held shares of HDFC Bank. Advocate Nitin Pradhan, the counsel for the trust's authorised representative, Prashant Mehta, objected to this, following which justice Jain recused himself from the matter....