Kathmandu, October 30
Former lawmaker and minister from the Nepali Congress, Mohammad Aftab Alam, is in critical condition and undergoing treatment on a ventilator at Kathmandu Medical College (KMC), family sources said.
“His condition is stable but serious; he is being treated on a ventilator,” family member Naushad Alam told Onlinekhabar.
Alam reportedly suffered a brain stroke shortly after being released from Nakkhu Prison in June this year. He was treated at Annapurna Neuro Hospital in Maitighar at the time.
Alam had been convicted by the Rautahat District Court and sentenced to life imprisonment for burning two injured men alive following a bomb explosion at his uncle Sheikh Indris’s house in Rajpur, Rautahat, on March 27, 2008, the eve of the Constituent Assembly elections.
However, the High Court later overturned the verdict, releasing him from prison. He suffered a brain stroke soon after his release.
