India, June 10 -- The Bombay High Court on Tuesday refused to grant any interim relief to the trust that runs the Lilavati Hospital in Bandra in its Rs.1,000-crore defamation lawsuit against HDFC Bank and its CEO, Sashidhar Jagdishan.

A single-judge bench of justice Somasekhar Sundaresan held that the bank's statements were not defamatory and were "in fact based on a factually accurate foundation in explaining and defending a valid [loan] recovery process adopted in accordance with law".

In its defamation suit, the Lilavati Kirtilal Mehta Medical Trust (LKMMT) had accused HDFC Bank of falsely suggesting, in public statements made in June 2025, that the trust and a permanent trustee, Prashant Mehta, had defaulted on loans. The trust cont...