People's Democratic Party chairman and accused in the 1998 Coimbatore serial blasts, Abdul Nasser Madani, has appealed to Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa to take measures to provide necessary ayurvedic treatment for his 'various ailments'.
He also urged her to take action against some jail officials for 'providing and filing false information about his health before various courts, leading to rejection of his bail'.
In a letter to the chief minister, delivered through the jail superintendent and issued by his counsel M H Abdur Rahmaan, Madani, lodged in Coimbatore's Central Prison, Madhani said it was in response to reports about him rejecting medical treatment in the jail recently.
Narrating his health conditions, Madani said he weighed 110 kg when he was brought to jail in 1998, which was reduced to 50 kg in the last eight years, due to various ailments like peptic ulcer, diabetes, coronory artery disease, hypertension and lumbar disc prolapse.
Claiming that various medical summaries kept in the jail hospital and the reports issued by prison medical officers were proof of the ailments, Madani said he was not able to undergo a major surgery for correcting the fracture on his spinal chord and disc complaint, due to 'uncontrollable diabetes, prolonged imprisonment and situation in the jail'.
Ayurveda and siddha doctors who have examined him, have suggested that ayurveda treatment was 'proper and fit remedy and treatment for these diseases', he said.
The Supreme Court had rejected Madani's bail, on the basis of a 'false affidavit' filed by the jail deputy inspector general, saying Madani didn't 'cooperate' and 'rejected the treatment given from the jail hospital from July 4-31', when the fact was that nobody had visited him inside the jail for providing any type of ayurvedic treatment during the period, Madani said.
"It is a false allegation against me and a sheer misrepresentation before the Supreme Court," he said, adding it was only the court visited him on September 21. He fully cooperated with them, he said.
When he asked why they 'misrepresented' the Court, they did not reply, Madhani claimed in his letter. The next day, there were reports that Madhani had rejected treatment, the letter said.
A copy of the letter was made available to the press. Jail officials were not immediately available for comment.