Ahmedabad:
PP Pandey, the Gujarat police officer accused of murdering college student Ishrat Jahan, is in hospital but has asked doctors to send him in an ambulance if necessary to appear in a court in Ahmedabad.
Mr Pandey was hospitalised yesterday after he complained of chest pain.
Mr Pandey had been ordered by the Supreme Court today to appear in a city court today.
After going missing for nearly two months since he was named an accused in the Ishrat case, he showed up at work for a few hours on Sunday.
He was a senior Crime Branch officer in Ahmedabad when the 19-year-old was shot dead with three men on the outskirts of the city in 2004.
In its first chargesheet filed last month, the CBI listed Mr Pandey as one of seven policemen who allegedly murdered her in what it described as a "staged encounter" committed "in cold blood."
The policemen have said in their defence that they had been warned by the state's Intelligence Bureau that Ishrat and her companions were planning to assassinate chief minister Narendra Modi on behalf of the Lashkar-e-Taiba.
Last week, the CBI said that it will expand its inquiry to determine whether that is true. In its first chargesheet, it did not comment on the alleged terror links of the group, provoking fierce criticism from the BJP. The party said that the government is pressuring the CBI to suppress crucial information to undermine the administration of Mr Modi, who is widely seen as the front-runner for the BJP's prime ministerial nomination.