Former Satyam chief Ramalinga Raju suffers heart attack

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.