Pakistan’s deposed Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was sent back to jail on Monday after his 10-day stay in Jinnah Hospital Lahore in connection with his treatment.

Sharif, who is serving a seven-year imprisonment in the Al-Azizia Steel Mills corruption case, was shifted to hospital on February 15 from Kot Lakhpat jail for cardiac treatment. According to a Punjab Government official, the three-time prime minister asked the doctors to shift him back to jail after his bail petition on medical grounds was rejected.

A two-member Islamabad High Court Bench on Monday “dismissed” his bail application, saying Sharif could not be given bail on health grounds as he was already being treated at a hospital.“We have shifted Sharif to jail primarily on his request,” he said and added that the Sharif family was interested to get his angiography done from London after bail.

The five-member special medical board of the Jinnah Hospital that examined Sharif said the patient needs cardiac catherterisation, for further management, in view of his symptoms of angina.