Raju has been abstaining from court proceedings since last September citing health reasons, initially for heart ailment and later for Hepatitis-C ailment.

Though the additional chief metropolitan magistrate and special CBI judge BVLN Chakravarti on April 12 had asked the NIMS to furnish details of Raju’s health condition on a daily basis with copies of daily case sheets and medical tests conducted on him since March 31 for verification, so far no report has been filed by the NIMS. Following this the judge asked NIMS Director to submit a report by Friday.