Arrested former Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa today prolonged his stay outside jail by moving from a state-run heart speciality centre to a general hospital, hours after the Karnataka High Court deferred to October 20 hearing on his interim bail plea in the land scam case.
Yeddyurappa was moved in an ambulance through a third exit point to the government-run Victoria Hospital from the Jayadeva Institute of Cardiology with a large media contingent waiting outside the main entrance.
"Since the results of a 24-hour Holter Study through which his heart and heart beats were monitored show that the condition of his heart is normal and stable, we discharged him," Jayadeva Institute of Cardiology Director Dr C.N. Manjunath said.
He said Yeddyurappa suffers from other medical problems like diabetes, hypertension, hypothyroidism, backache and reactive airway disease and Parkinson, besides high sodium levels in the blood and depression.
Jail authorities permitted shifting of Yeddyurappa on the recommendations by Jayadeva Hospital doctors that he required multi-disciplinary medical consultations as he suffered from multiple ailments, DIG Prisons Lakshminarayana said.
The Jayadeva hospital in its discharge summary also stated that Yeddyurappa, who is a chronic diabetic required consultations from the Institute of Nephrology and Urology, which is adjacent to the Victoria Hospital.
In Delhi, Congress had a dig at Yeddyurappa.
"Whoever goes to jail falls ill. I think we must constitute some research what disease suddenly crops up when one sees the the prison door," party spokesperson Renuka Chowdhary said.
Law Minister Salman Khurshid said BJP has a lot to explain on what happened in Karnataka.