Bhubaneswar, May 4 -- The Orissa High Court on Wednesday allowed the extension of interim bail of Chilika MLA Prashant Jagdev on health grounds. The legislator was arrested on charges of ploughing his SUV into a crowd last month.

According to Jagdev's counsel Abhinab Chand, the court has directed to extend the MLA's interim bail for seven more days till May 11.

After Jagdev's interim bail ended yesterday, the lawyer of the Chilika MLA appeared before the Banapur JMFC court on Wednesday and produced a memo of High Court's directive in the court.

Earlier on April 22, the Orissa High Court had granted seven-day interim bail to Jagadev .

Notably, on March 12 Jagdev was heading towards Banpur Block for the Block chairperson election when h...