CBI court directs immediate shifting of ex-DHFL promoter to JJ Hospital
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Two days after a special CBI court pulled up the superintendent of Taloja Jail and a private hospital over the long hospitalisation of the former promoter of Dewan Housing Finance Corporation Limited (DHFL) Dheeraj Wadhawan, it ordered that he be shifted immediately to the state-run JJ hospital on Thursday.
.The court had, on Tuesday, called for an explanation from the superintendent or the head of the department of the private Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital and sought to know the ailments Wadhawan was suffering from that had necessitated hospitalisation for a long period. He has been admitted there since April last year. It had also sought an explanation from the jail superintendent on how he had been shifted to the private hospital with out its permission.
Wadhawan's advocate Rohan Dakshini said on Thursday that the private hospital submitted to the court that Wadhawan needed two surgeries as he suffered from a sleep disorder and that he could be sent back to prison after two weeks of surgery. The surgery could be done in JJ Hospital too, it informed the court. CBI judge S U Wadgonkar then passed an order that Wadhawan be...
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