Former Minister of State for Women and Child Development in the Narendra Modi Government, Maya Kodnani was admitted to an Ahmedabad-based heart hospital following chest pain. Kodnani, one of the convicts in the Naroda Patiya case, was granted three-month temporary bail on November 12 by the Gujarat High Court.
Sources close to Kodnani said that her condition was stable and she is under supervision of experts. She was first rushed to ICU and later on shifted to special ward, according to the sources. In fact, the former Minister’s bail plea for six months was considered by a division bench of justice KS Jhaveri and KJ Thaker on health ground only that too for three months. She was diagnosed with intestinal tuberculosis, heart ailment and depression. After coming out of the prison on last Tuesday, the 58-year-old gynecologist, Dr Kodnani was taken to treatment in a hospital and later on discharged.
The former Minister of State for Women and Child Development was sentenced to 28 years in jail for murder during the Gujarat riots. She resigned after she was arrested in March 2009. In August 2012, a special court awarded life imprisonment to her along with Bajarang Dal leader Babu Bajrangi and 29 other convicts in the Naroda Patia incident, occurred after Godhara train carnage. At that time Kodnani was MlA from Naroda constituency, part of Ahmedabad city. She was elected thrice as MlA.