When dna tried reaching Jaisinghani (whose caller tune has interestingly changed to Zindagi har kadam ek nayi jung hai / Jeet Jayenge hum tu agar sang hai), he replied saying he was going to consult a cardiologist.
Bookie Anil Jaisinghani, who evaded arrest saying he was getting admitted to hospital as his blood pressure has shot up, surprisingly spent a mere 18 minutes in Thane's Jupiter hospital. "Though his pressure was showing 180/100 when he arrived in the casualty department around 3.30 pm and was advised getting admitted, he left as suddenly as he had arrived without even waiting to complete all the necessary paperwork," a source at the hospital confirmed. Incidentally, the armed Mumbai police protection he enjoys made his exit from hospital easy even as the staff there were insisting that he complete the paperwork.
When dna tried reaching Jaisinghani (whose caller tune has interestingly changed to Zindagi har kadam ek nayi jung hai / Jeet Jayenge hum tu agar sang hai), he replied saying he was going to consult a cardiologist. "I was advised an angiography in the hospital and I'm going to meet him," he told dna refusing to divulge the name of the doctor who'd suggested this. When dna asked him whether he was going to present himself before Gujarat ED in its Ahmedabad office on Monday, as per the summons under the PMLA Act, he said, "I have to see if my health permits me to."
Senior officials at Gujarat ED pointed out that not showing up can only queer the pitch for him. "We're keeping a tab on him and know about his 'brief stopover' at the hospital. All this will only compound his case," an officer told dna but refused to comment on Mumbai police continuing to provide protection to Jaisinghani despite what had happened since Friday. "This is for the Mumbai police to comment," he said.
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While Mumbai CP Rakesh Maria, at whose behest the protection was given, continued to remain incommunicado, MoS Home (Urban) Ranjit Patil did not respond to repeated calls and a detailed text on the issue.
Meanwhile, Jaisinghani is now insisting this is all a matter of 'mistaken identity'. "The Anil Jaisinghani they want is someone else. He is a bookie from Raipur with the same name and I have spoken to him. The ED and other investigating agencies should look into this in the interest of justice instead of harassing me."
Interestingly, two members of the ED team which raided Gol Maidan's Jaisinghani Apartments at Ulhasnagar continue to be stationed at the Jaisinghanis' third floor residence. The only other family residing in the building is another bookie and Jaisinghani aide, Deepak Narayani (who dna had exposed in the company of cricketer Suresh Raina at the Shirdi Saibaba shrine on June 3, 2011).
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On Friday, soon after the raid began, Aniksha, Jaisinghani's daughter arrived at the Narayani's home asking for sugar. "When it was offered in a bowl," a domestic help in the Narayani household told dna, "she asked for the entire dabba. I could not give the dabba, so I handed over all the sugar in a plastic bag."
Allegedly, fistfuls of this sugar was added to water and fed to Jaisinghani by his wife Karishma. A doctor at Jupiter hospital confirmed this could be a clever ploy to push up blood pressure.
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