Ex-Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh tells special court his BP is unstable

MUMBAI: Maharashtra's former home minister Anil Deshmukh was on Tuesday produced before the the special court where he said that his blood pressure was "unstable" and he was not very well.
Special Judge R N Rokade asked whether he had been referred to a civic hospital and whether his Stress Thallium test, as directed by the court in May 2022, was performed.
Deshmukh’s lawyer Inderpal Singh told the court that since no doctor was available during the Ganesh festival, test was not.
The court posted his next date for production on September 27, and also adjourned the pre-arrest bail plea of his son Hrishikesh Deshmukh to September 29.
In May, the Special Judge had directed that after his Thallium test was performed, Deshmukh was to be referred to JJ hospital for treatment of dislocation of shoulder along with the stress thallium report.
Deshmukh, in his 70s, was arrested first by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in an alleged money laundering case in November 2021.
Alleging that he was a victim of gross persecution, harassment and a witch-hunt campaign, Hrishikesh Deshmukh (34), had last November moved the special court seeking anticipatory bail in a money laundering case and the ED had contended that despite five summonses to him he had not shown up.