Mumbai, May 7: Former Maharashtra deputy chief minister and NCP leader Chhagan Bhujbal will be kept under observation for two more days in King Edward Memorial (KEM) Hospital in Mumbai for his diabetes treatment.  According to a tweet by ANI, a special team of doctors is monitoring his condition.

The Bombay High Court on Friday granted bail to Bhujbal in a money laundering case. Justice P N Deshmukh, however, directed Bhujbal who was arrested in March 2016, to pay a personal bond of Rs five lakh to secure his bail.

Since his arrest in March 2016, Bhujbal has been in and out of hospitals due to his ailing health. Doctors at the KEM hospital said that he suffers from necrosis of pancreas, a condition in which cells in an organ start dying due to an infection or disease. On March 13, a special court allowed him to undergo tests at KEM hospital, under the supervision of the Hepatopancreatobilary (HPB) and Gastroenterology (GI) departments. Since then, he has remained in the air-conditioned comfort of KEM.

While granting him bail in the last week, Justice Deshmukh also imposed certain conditions on Bhujbal's release on bail, including that he will appear before the Enforcement Directorate (ED), whenever summoned for questioning. Citing his ailing health, Bhujbal had approached the high court in January this year seeking bail on the ground that his custody was not required anymore as the charge sheet has already been filed.

In December 2017, a special PMLA (Prevention of Money Laundering Act) court had rejected his bail plea. The former state Public Works Department minister was arrested after an ED inquiry revealed that he and his associates allegedly misused their office and caused financial loss to the government.

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