Bangladesh interim government chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Tuesday directed the health ministry to take measures for sending Gono Odhikar Parishad president Nurul Haque Nur abroad for treatment.
The government is also going to form a judicial inquiry committee, headed by Justice Ali Reza, to investigate the attack on Nur, also a former vice-president of the Dhaka University Central Students鈥� Union, according to a press release issued by the chief adviser鈥檚 press wing.
It said that Nur鈥檚 wife, Maria Akter, along with Gono Odhikar Parishad general secretary Rashed Khan, met with the chief adviser at the state guest house Jamuna in Dhaka on Tuesday.
Maria Akter informed the chief adviser that Nur had suffered a brain hemorrhage, a broken nasal bone, and injuries to his jaw and spine, it said.
She also said that Nur must be taken abroad for proper treatment.
In response, the chief adviser immediately instructed the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to arrange for Nur鈥檚 treatment abroad.
鈥榃e are all deeply shocked by this incident. We have taken all necessary measures for his treatment. A judicial inquiry into the incident is underway,鈥� the release quoted Professor Yunus as saying.
Law adviser Asif Nazrul at that time said that a judicial inquiry committee, led by Justice Ali Reza, is going to be formed to investigate the attack.
The official gazette will be published by Wednesday, and the committee must complete its investigation within 15 days, he added.
Environment affairs adviser Rizwana Hasan, and housing and public works affairs adviser Adilur Rahman Khan were also present.
Nurul Haque Nur, who sustained injuries to his head and nose in an attack by the law enforcement agencies during the August 29 clash in Dhaka, was shifted to a cabin from the intensive care unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital on Monday.
