Citing health reasons, West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress legislator Iqbal Ahmed on Wednesday failed to appear before the Enforcement Directorate and skipped the Central Bureau of Investigation's summon in connection with the Narada sting video probe.

The ED, last week, served a notice to him for appearing at the agency's Kolkata office on Wednesday. "We have submitted a written letter to the investigating agency that Ahmed is in hospital. He cannot be able to appear before the agency. We have told them that they are free to come and interrogate him in the hospital," said Ahmed's lawyer.