Katta Subramanya Naidu’s bail put off to verify medical records

The medical records of former minister Katta Subramanya Naidu were submitted to the high court on Friday and his case was adjourned to October 31.

Naidu is facing charges in the multi-crore Karnataka Industrial Areas Development Board (KIADB) scam.

After the Lok Ayukta special court rejected his bail application on October 17, Naidu wanted to undergo medical treatment for lymphoma (cancer) in London and he filed an application for regular bail in the high court.

The Lok Ayukta court had given him permission to procure treatment anywhere in the country under their surveillance.

Naidu’s medical records were submitted before the high court when his case came up for hearing before Justice BV Pinto on Friday.

Justice Pinto said he would verify the documents and directed the Lok Ayukta’s special public prosecutor to file objections.

The case was then adjourned to October 31.

The director of the KIDWAI Memorial Institute of Oncology, Prof C Vijay Kumar, had furnished opinion regarding the medical condition of the former minister to the court on October 7.

That report said the PET and the CT scans showed recurrence of the disease (aggressive cancer), but it needed to be confirmed by conducting the lymph node biopsy.  Naidu, in his bail application, had contended that he was suffering from Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and he wanted to undergo treatment at Royal Free Hampstead Hospital in London, where he had been treated for cancer.

He also contended that his stem cells had been stored in the same hospital and if he were allowed to receive treatment there, his life would be saved.