Mumbai, 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. On Friday, senior advocate Ashish Kamat, appearing for the trust, submitted that Singh circulated two emails dated February 2, 2026, and later gave interviews to three publications, containing "vile statements and serious insinuations" which had sullied the reputation and goodwill of the trust. A single judge bench of Justice Milind Jadhav said statements by Singh about the LMKKT and its trustees appeared to have been made "to tarnish their reputation in public and to humiliate them in the eyes of the society". The court issued a notice to Singh, saying such statements "may not be made any further by him". On Wednesday, the high court had issued notices to 10 trustees of the LKMMT, acting on a plea by Rajesh Mehta who was removed as permanent trustee on January 16. In his plea, Rajesh Mehta challenged his removal, accused ten trustees of passing two "illegal" resolutions" and sought a permanent injunction restraining the trustees from acting on the resolutions. He also sought Rs.10 crore in damages. Also on Wednesday, Prashant Mehta approached the Charity Commissioner, saying Singh had no locus standi to contest his removal as executive director before the authority as he was a former employee of the trust, and not a trustee or beneficiary. Singh's challenge to his removal should be dismissed as it is contrary to the Maharashtra Public Trusts Act and a "mockery and an affront" to the law, Prashant Mehta said....