PANAJI: While most people charged in criminal cases, particularly those connected with drug related cases, long for freedom to carry out their "businesses", Yaniv Benaim alias Atala, an alleged drug dealer, has approached the Institute of Psychiatry and Human Behaviour authorities with a request that he be admitted to the hospital, though he was recently discharged from the institute.

Perhaps the Israeli national, who was arrested earlier this year recently released by the court as there was no sufficient evidence to link him to drug related cases, must be feeling insecure in the state and wants to protect himself from any "attack" by "incarcerating" himself in the hospital.

According to a top official of the IPHB, Atala visited the out-patient department on Saturday last and urged the doctors attending on him to admit him to the hospital for "treatment" though his condition was stable. He was admitted to the IPHB twice, first on May 31 and than on June 6, this year. He was discharged first on June 4 after treatment and again on June 23.

The accused drug Mafioso, however, put a condition for his admission to the IPHB that he be allowed to go out of the institute every morning at 10 a.m. and every afternoon at 4 p.m. for three hours each. He tried to influence the doctors attending on him by stating that a senior doctor had told him to do so.

The "condition" was rejected outright by a top official of the hospital as it did not fit the norms related to admission of patients to the IPHB and that Atala was told that he could not seek admission at his conditions. He was also told that in case he was admitted then he would have to consume food from the hospital and that no outside food would be allowed.

Atala, who was deported from Goa way back in 2006 but managed to sneak back in Goa and since has been hogging limelight following revelation by his former girlfriend Ms Lucky Farmhouse, a Swedish national, that some police officials and politicians visited him regularly for monetary gratification.