Chautala admitted to RML Hospital

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Press Trust of India New Delhi
Last Updated : Aug 28 2016 | 10:57 PM IST
Former Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala, serving a 10-year jail term in the teachers recruitment scam, has been admitted to Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital following an infection.
The 81-year-old INLD chief was admitted to the hospital yesterday and was today shifted to trauma ICU section, authorities at the RML Hospital said and added that his condition is now "stable".
He was brought in here yesterday and later shifted to ICU. His TLC (Total Leukocyte Count) has increased a lot which indicated some sort of infection, the authorities said.
Further reports are awaited after which senior doctors would decide as to how long he would need to stay at the hospital, they said.
He is lodged in Tihar Jail and sources said he was referred to RML Hospital from the central jail dispensary.
On January 22, 2013, a special CBI court had convicted and sentenced Chautala and his son Ajay along with seven others to 10-year jail term each for illegally recruiting 3,206 junior teachers in 2000.

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First Published: Aug 28 2016 | 10:57 PM IST