Sasikala's husband hospitalised in Bengaluru, on ventilator support

March 18, 2018 14:24

Maruthappa Natarajan, the estranged husband of jailed ex-AIADMK leader VK Sasikala, is on ventilator support at a hospital in Bengaluru.

Natarajan was admitted in the ICU on March 16. He is in critical condition and on ventilator support, said the Gleneagles Global Hospitals statement.

Last November, Natarajan was admitted to a hospital, hours after the Madras high court upheld a trial court order sentencing him to two years imprisonment in a tax evasion case. The 74-year-old had undergone a kidney and liver transplant at a Chennai hospital on October 3.

A bureaucrat in the Tamil Nadu government during the late chief minister Jayalalithaa's early tenures, Natarajan and Sasikala had been living apart ever since the latter moved into Jayalalithaas Poes Garden residence.

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