Hyderabad, Nov. 14 -- The police in Andhra Pradesh's Anantapur district shifted 21-year-old Hemanth alias Dummu, accused of attacking a Class 10 girl with a chainsaw at the Zilla Parishad High School in Raptadu, to the Kurnool Government General Hospital on Friday night after his health deteriorated, police said on Saturday.

A police official said doctors at the Anantapur Government Hospital conducted several tests on Hemanth after he fell from his bed on the night of November 9 and diagnosed him with pulmonary embolism, a potentially life-threatening condition involving blood clots in the blood vessels of the lungs.

On Friday, the medical team at the Anantapur hospital submitted a status report to the state high court, stating that the...