Hours after actor Kamaal Rashid Khan, best known as KRK, was sent to judicial custody by a Mumbai court, he was taken to hospital over complaints of chest pain.
KRK's lawyers said he was taken to Shatabdi Hospital in Kandivali on Tuesday night due to his health condition.
They also said that he had returned to India from Dubai for heart treatment.
For those unversed, KRK was arrested over his 2020 tweets about Akshay Kumar and Ram Gopal Verma with city police claiming that his posts were communal and he targeted Bollywood personalities. A magistrate's court in Mumbai on Tuesday remanded KRK in 14-day judicial custody and adjourned bail hearing to September 2.
Police sought his custody, saying they needed to find out at whose behest he was posting such tweets from a foreign country despite knowing that they might create communal tension.
Police also needed to ascertain if he was trying to extort money from filmmakers or stars for not posting negative reviews of movies, the remand application said.
However, KRK's lawyers opposed the remand plea, contending that his tweets were not inflammatory. The tweets were about actor Akshay Kumar and film-maker Ram Gopal Varma but they had not filed any complaint and the First Information Report was registered by another person, the lawyers added.
The FIR was registered against Khan in 2020 in the case under various Indian Penal Code sections including 153 (giving provocation with intent to cause riot) and 500 (punishment for defamation) and provisions of the Information Technology Act.
KRK had starred in the 2008 film "Deshdrohi", among others.
(With inputs from PTI)
