HDFC Bank CEO Approaches Supreme Court Against Lilavati Trust’s FIR After Recusal By Bombay HC Judges
Sashidhar Jagdishan, the CEO of HDFC Financial institution, has approached the Supreme Court docket searching for to quash the FIR registered on the behest of Lilavati Kirtilal Mehta Medical Belief.
Senior Advocate Mukul Rohatgi talked about the petition earlier than a bench comprising Justices MM Sundresh and Okay Vinod Chandran searching for pressing itemizing tomorrow, saying that three Bombay High Court judges have recused from listening to the matter, inflicting delay in itemizing.
“A frivolous FIR has been lodged in opposition to the MD and the Financial institution, by trustees of the Lilavati hospital, who’re litigating in opposition to the opposite group of trustees. The financial institution has to recuperate cash from them. To be able to twist the arm, they’ve lodged an FIR by means of the Justice of the Peace in opposition to the MD. We went to the Bombay Excessive Court docket. Three benches of the Bombay Excessive Court docket recused from listening to. Now the following date is given as July 14, that can be tentative. On a regular basis the financial institution is struggling,” Rohatgi submitted.
The bench agreed to checklist the matter tomorrow.
In its FIR, the Belief has accused Jagdishan of accepting a bribe of Rs 2.05 crore from erstwhile Trustee Chetan Mehta, for giving him monetary recommendation and serving to him to retain management over the Belief’s governance. It additional accused Jagdishan of interfering in its inner affairs by misusing his place as the top of the HDFC financial institution.
