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Updated On: 21 December, 2009 07:09 AM IST | | Ketan Ranga and Vinod Kumar Menon
MiD DAY gets exclusive photos of NRI hotelier tycoon Vikram Chatwal at a Byculla nursing home, where he was on secret drug rehab
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MiD DAY gets exclusive photos of NRI hotelier tycoon Vikram Chatwal at a Byculla nursing home, where he was on secret drug rehab
The pictures of NRI hotelier tycoon Vikram Chatwal walking the grounds of Masina Hospital on page 1 were shot onu00a0Thursday a day before he was discharged.
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While Chatwal spent a month undergoing a hush-hush programme for drug rehabilitation at the nondescript Byculla hospital, it has now been revealed that actor and close friend Arjun Rampal admitted him to the hospital.
Divorced from model Priya Sachdev after a much-publicised 25-party marriage, Chatwal and Rampal were seen together at the Cannes film festival this year and the actor was also a guest on Chatwal's yatch in May.
Chatwal owns and runs five luxury boutique hotels in New York and Bangkok some of which have been inherited from his father, Sant Singh Chatwal. Rampal was not available for comment.
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On Track: Vikram Chatwal walks the grounds of Masina Hospital, a day before his discharge on Dec 18 |
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Chatwal spent his rehabilitation days in deluxe room no 1131 on the third floor of the hospital's nursing home (Bai Serenebai M Banajee Memorial Wing).
Sources said that Chatwal abused a variety of drugs and his health had deteriorated considerably and at the hospital, he was under the supervision of Dr Yusuf Machiswala.
While Dr Machiswala denied it, hospital sources confirmed he had in fact treated Chatwal.
Meanwhile, hospital sources at Masina have not revealed the exact nature of the drugs Chatwal had been abusing or the treatment, but during his stay the hotelier would visit the rehabilitation centre and attend sessions with the 15 other inmates.
According to film industry sources, this is not the first time that Chatwal has attended a rehabilitation programme.
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