Hyderabad:In a late night crackdown, the police on Wednesday evicted YSR Congress Party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy from the venue of his indefinite hunger strike called to protest bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh and took him into preventive custody as doctors voiced concern over his deteriorating health.

“We lifted him (from his residence Lotus Pond in the posh Jubillee Hills in the city where Jagan was on fast) and took him to Nizam Institute for Medical Sciences Hospital on doctors’ advice,” said Deputy Commissioner of Police (west zone) V Satyanarayana.

Doctors at NIMS said Jagan was forcibly given fluids at the hospital.