Former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa,who has been hopping from one hospital to another ever since his arrest last Saturday,has been discharged and sent back to prison. 68-year-old Yeddyurappa,who had shifted from the Jayadeva Institute of Cardiology to Victoria hospital yesterday,insisted that he be discharged,apparently upset over adverse media reports about his hospital hopping to avoid prison. Dr Siddappa and Dr Nataraj,who were treating the former chief minister at the Victoria hospital said,Yeddyurappa's sodium level in the blood is low. He is suffering from breathing problems,uncontrolled blood pressure and diabetes. He is also suffering from backache. But Yeddyurappa insisted he should be discharged and we have done it. Siddappa said Yeddyurappa should continue medication to bring the sodium level in his blood to normal. Sources close to Yeddyurappa said he had confided to Minister for Housing V Somanna that he was hurt by the way media portrayed his shifting hospitals. He wants to remain like a common prisoner and avail treatment in jail hospital. Soon after Yeddyurappa reached the Parappana Agrahara jail,he was subjected to medical tests. Yeddyurappa preferred to stay in the cell and has not been admitted to the hospital (in the jail),DIG prisons,Lakshminarayana said. Another source said Yeddyurappa returned to jail on legal advice as his bail application is coming up for hearing before the High Court tomorrow. Yeddyurappa had filed a bail application in the High Court on Monday. Facing imminent arrest,he had surrendered before the Lokayukta court last Saturday after it rejected his bail plea. The Lokayukta court had on October 15 remanded Yeddyurappa to judicial custody till October 22 in cases relating to alleged irregularities in the denotification of government land. Hours after he was remanded to judicial custody by a local court on October 15,Yeddyurappa had complained of uneasiness and chest pain in the early hours and was rushed to the Jayadeva hospital. In more trouble to Yeddyurappa,a petition was moved before the High Court today praying for the cancellation of bail granted to his sons and son-in-law by the Lokayukta special court. The petitioner Sirajin Basha has submitted the grounds on which Yeddyurappa was denied bail by Lokayukta court applied to the former chief minister's two sons - B Y Raghavendra,Lok Sabha member,B Y Vijendra,and son-in-law R N Sohan Kumar - and prayed for their bail to be cancelled. Basha has also prayed before the High Court seeking the cancellation of bail granted to BJP MLA,Hemachandra Sagar,an accused along with Yeddyurappa,submitting that he was guilty of the offences as former minister Krishnaiah Setty who was remanded in judicial custody by the Lokayukta court. The petition is coming up for hearing tomorrow along with the bail pleas filed by Yeddyurappa and Setty. Setty who has also been remanded in judicial custody till October 22 moved his bail application before the High Court today and it is listed for hearing tomorrow. Meanwhile,Excise Minister M P Renukacharya,a hardcore supporter of Yeddyurappa,has expressed displeasure over media reports on the former chief minister's hospitalisation.
