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The Enforcement Directorate (ED) and I-T department have also directed the ARA Memorial Weaver’s Hospital in Ranchi, where Koda is recuperating, not to release him without informing them.

Koda, who got himself admitted to the ICU of the hospital, has been shifted to a room. “We have been directed by both the IT and ED to inform them about his health bulletin and also tell them before we discharge Koda,” P D Sinha, Medical Superintendent of the Abdur Razzak Weavers’ Memorial Hospital, Appollo Group, said today.

“He was shifted from the ICU to a room in the ward around noon. He still has slight pain in his stomach,” the medical superintendent said.

Earlier, the I-T department sealed Koda’s house in Ranchi.

The ED had also issued a summons to Koda and seven of his aides in connection with alleged hawala transactions.

Koda and his aides have been directed to present themselves before the directorate on November 9, 10 and 11.

An ED team from Delhi had earlier arrived in Ranchi to obtain documents on the alleged hawala transactions carried out by Koda and his associates. It intends to obtain material evidence and documents seized by the income tax department and source information from the records of the tax searches against Koda and others.

After witnessing nationwide raids for three days to unearth the assets of the former Jharkhand chief minister and his associates, Koda had on Tuesday complained of a pain in his abdomen, giddiness and vomiting. He was admitted to Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Apollo Hospital in Ranchi.