The Appellate Division has asked the BSMMU authorities to form a new medical board to examine the health of BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam.
A four-member bench of the apex court, headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha, gave the order yesterday.
It asked the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) authorities to form a five-member medical board consisting a cardiologist, two vascular surgeons, a respiratory medicine specialist and a general surgery specialist to conduct a full-fledged check up.
The court asked the BSMMU authority to submit the medical report within 3pm on July 12. The court also fixed July 13 for hearing the order on the bail of Fakhrul in three cases.
The order for a fresh medical board came as Fakhrul’s lawyers raised question over the report submitted on Wednesday afternoon by a four-member BSMMU medical board in compliance with the Supreme Court’s July 5 order.
During the hearing, Khandker Mahbub Hossain argued for the BNP leader while Attorney General Mahbubey Alam represented the state.
Khandker Mahbub told the court that the medical board’s report had missed out some of the problems Mirza Fakhrul was suffering from.
Later, he told reporters that the BSMMU medical report claimed that Fakhrul had been suffering from neck pain, while in truth the BNP leader had been suffering mainly from a cardiovascular problem.