Hifazat chief Shah Ahmad Shafi has been transferred to a hospital in Dhaka from Chittagong for specialised medical treatment.
Published : 07 Jun 2017, 12:49 AM
An air ambulance carried him to the capital from the port city on Tuesday afternoon.
In Dhaka, he has been admitted to Asgar Ali Hospital located in Gandaria area.
Shafi, 89, has been suffering from 'weakness and respiratory problems' since May 18, said his party leaders.
He was first admitted to the Centre for Specialised Care and Research in the port city of Chittagong last month. Shafi was kept at the coronary care unit for a few days.
Shafi’s son Maulana Mohammad Yusuf accompanied him to Dhaka.
Hifazat-e Islam, a radical Islamist group, has made headlines multiple times since 2013 after creating mayhem in Dhaka's Motijheel to protest against the Shahbagh movement, calling them 'atheist bloggers'.
Shafi's Qawmi madrasa-based organisation Hifazat came to limelight again recently by demanding the removal of the Lady Justice statue from the Supreme Court premises.
The statue was relocated outside the top court's Annex Building later after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina met a delegation led by Shafi at her official residence in April and said she too dislike the statue.