8 Sep 2009, ET Bureau
HYDERABAD: B Ramalinga Raju, former chairman of scam-tainted Satyam Computer Services , was admitted to the Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS), following a heart on Monday evening.
Raju was lodged in the Chanchalguda prison in January 9 this year, two days after he confessed to perpetrating a Rs 7,000-crore fraud at Satyam.
According to his lawyer Bharat Kumar, Raju suffered a heart attack at around 4.30 pm and his condition was serious when he was shifted to the hospital. “He was taken twice to NIMS over the past 10 days for treatment of type C Hepatitis. A medical board constituted by the state government examined him and recommended treatment for a couple of months. He had blocks in his arteries, but was unable to take medicines as he was suffering from liver disorder,” said Bharat Kumar.
Several applications for bail were rejected by the lower court and the Andhra Pradesh High Court. The CBI, which filed a charge sheet, also moved a petition to conduct lie-detector and polygraph tests. But Raju moved a counter-petition , challenging the validity of these tests. A lie-detector test cannot be conducted on a person who has a critical ailment.
Raju was shifted late Monday evening from the Chanchalguda jail to NIMS. His brother B Rama Raju and former chief financial officer Srinivas Vadlamani are also lodged in the same prison for conspiring in the same fraud.
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