India, Dec. 27 -- Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and former corporator Uday Joshi, 65, died after falling ill while lodged in Yerawada Central Jail. On Friday morning, Joshi was rushed to Sassoon General Hospital following a sudden health emergency, but doctors later declared him dead during treatment, police officials said.

Sunil Dhamal, superintendent of police at Yerawada Central Jail, said, "He was suffering from illness and kept under the doctor's observation in jail. On Friday morning, due to a medical emergency, he was rushed to the Sassoon General Hospital, where he died."

Joshi, who had served as a BJP corporator from Sadashiv Peth in the 1990s, was in jail in connection with a fraud case involving allegations of in...