Manish Sisodia fails to meet his wife, she’s hospitalised before his arrival from jail

Sisodia, AAP officials said, spent the entirety of his visit till 5 pm in her absence. His son is studying away from Delhi and was consequently also not at home, AAP officials also said. Seema, they added, is admitted to the neurology department and her condition is stable.

Meanwhile, the Delhi High Court called for a medical report on Sisodia’s wife from Lok Nayak Hospital. “Let report be also called from LNJP and be filed by today evening,” Justice Sharma said, while reserving the verdict on Sisodia’s interim bail plea in the Enforcement Directorate’s probe into the excise policy. The verdict will be pronounced on June 5.

The AAP leader has sought interim bail on the ground of his wife’s illness. On Friday, the court directed the ED to verify medical documents of Sisodia’s wife and file a report by the same evening.

Appearing for ED, advocate Zoheb Hossain Saturday said there had been no change of circumstance with respect to the interim bail plea filed by Sisodia. “The prior prescription and present prescription are identical… No direction is there for anything different, except for bed rest,” he said.

Hossain vehemently opposed the interim bail on the ground that Sisodia’s wife had been suffering from the disease for the past 20 years, the court noted. He further submitted that an earlier interim bail application moved on identical grounds had been withdrawn by Sisodia and that he was not entitled to bail.

Appearing for Sisodia, senior advocate Mohit Mathur submitted, “Very conveniently it was said there is no change in circumstances. If they want to say the prescription of medication is the same, therefore, everything is the same… medication may remain the same, but please see what all has happened.”

Mathur drew the court’s attention to medical documents of Sisodia’s wife and said she was unable to “walk without assistance for more than a few metres” and that she suffered from “faecal incontinence”.

“The bowel movement… there is no control. It is a degenerative disease, there can be no improvement… he says dramatic change has to be there. I don’t find this word dramatic anywhere in the CrPC, in any judgment. I could have understood a significant/substantial change but a dramatic change? It is a life we are talking about. Are we trying to say a person’s life is so worthless that even if he is suffering from imprisonment… she won’t be entitled to have him, to take care of her,” Mathur said.

Mathur said that while his client was taken home in custody to see his wife today morning, her health condition had deteriorated and before he could reach there, she was taken to LNJP hospital. He argued that Sisodia’s wife is “seriously sick” and that he be granted interim bail for six weeks.