Title - Vijay Singla to be examined in AIIMS today

NEW DELHI: A special CBI court has ordered the medical superintendent of AIIMS to get former railway minister Pawan Kumar Bansal's nephew Vijay Singla, an accused in the Rs 10 crore railway bribery case, medically examined after he claimed that he was not given proper treatment in Tihar jail.

Special CBI judge Swarana Kanta Sharma ordered that Singla be produced before the medical superintendent of AIIMS on August 8 and also said that a compliance report be filed before the court on August 13. The order came after Singla, who is lodged in Tihar jail along with other accused, told the court that he was not being provided proper treatment in prison.

"In such circumstances, it is ordered that the accused (Singla) be medically examined from AIIMS. Medical superintendent, AIIMS, is also directed to get the accused medically examined and file status report regarding his present medical condition, the treatment required and any other opinion he deems fit to the court," the judge said.

Tihar jail authorities had filed a medical report on Singla in court in which they said he was suffering from enlarged prostate.

The court had extended till August 19 the judicial custody of seven accused, including Singla, who have been arrested in connection with the case.

Besides Singla, the then member (staff) of railway board Mahesh Kumar, MD of Bangalore-based GG Tronics India Pvt Ltd Narayan Rao Manjunath, alleged middleman Sandeep Goyal, Rahul Yadav, Samir Sandhir and Sushil Daga are in judicial custody.

Out of the 10 accused who were chargesheeted by CBI, alleged middleman Ajay Garg, who is accused of being instrumental in fixing the bribe amount to get a favourable post for Kumar, was granted bail on July 8. Two other accused, M V Murali Krishan and C V Venugopal, are out on interim bail.