Arrested former Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa was today shifted from a heart specialist 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.
As a large media waited outside the main entrance of the Jayadeva Institute of Cardiology for Mr Yeddyurappa to come out, he was taken away in the evening in an ambulance to the state-run Victoria hospital through a third exit point.
His heart condition is “normal”, a doctor at the heart centre said. Mr Yeddyurappa has other medical problems such as diabetes and back ache for which he has been moved to the government hospital, the doctor said.
Justice B.V. Pinto of the Karnataka High Court adjourned the hearing on the application filed yesterday by Mr Yeddyurappa, who, facing imminent arrest, had surrendered before the Lokayukta Court on Saturday last after it rejected his bail application.
The judge rejected the plea by Mr C.H. Hanumantharaya, counsel for the petitioner Mr Sirajin Basha, for 20 days time to file his objections to the bail plea.
Mr Yeddyurappa's counsel Mr Ravi B Naik objected to this and submitted that since it was only an interim bail application, it should be heard as early as possible.
The Lokayukta court had on October 15 remanded Mr Yeddyurappa to judicial custody till October 22.