Fortis is discussing issuing around 40 billion rupees ($810 million) of new stock to TPG and Manipal through a preferential allotment, one of the people said. That would make the consortium the biggest shareholder in the publicly-traded company, which has a market value of about US$1.1 billion, the person said.

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