The condition of RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav, who is currenty in prison, is not stable as his kidneys are not functioning properly. Blood sugar and blood pressure are fluctuating, a senior doctor attending to him told PTI on Saturday.
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Prasad, 71, is undergoing treatment at the Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences in Ranchi. He has been in jail since 2017 after his conviction in fodder scam cases.
"His kidneys are not functioning properly. The GFR [glomerular filtration rate] has dropped. His blood sugar and blood pressure are also fluctuating. We can say he is not stable," Dr Umesh Prasad, one of the attending doctors, told PTI.
"His diet has also decreased compared to earlier. We are giving him medicines now," he said.
Prasad was, in March 2018, sentenced to 14 years in jail and fined Rs 60 lakh by a special CBI court in connection with the fourth fodder scam case pertaining to fraudulent withdrawal of Rs 3.13 crore from Dumka treasury in the early 1990s.
CBI judge Shiv Pal Singh awarded two separate sentences of seven years each to Prasad under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the Prevention of Corruption Acts. The court had, on March 19, held the 69-year-old RJD chief guilty along with 18 others.
The former Bihar chief minister and ex Union minister is undergoing treatment for multiple ailments.
-Inputs from PTI
