Latif Siddique hospitalised

Sacked minister Abdul Latif Siddique, who landed in jail for hurting religious sentiment, was admitted to the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) after he felt chest pain this afternoon.
 

Brig Gen (retd) Abdul Majid Bhuiyan, director of BSMMU hospital, said Latif was admitted to the Cabin Block of the hospital around 4:30pm after he was found suffering from chest pain and high blood pressure.
Necessary examinations are going on and a medical board will be formed tomorrow for his treatment, Bhuiyan told The Daily Star this afternoon.
 

Farman Ali Dhaka, senior jail super of Dhaka Central Jail, said they sent the expelled Awami League leader to the hospital around 3:30pm for examination after he had complained chest pain. The prison official said Latif Siddique felt the chest pain from early in the afternoon.
 

On November 25, a Dhaka court sent the sacked minister to prison on surrender before a police station in a case filed for his comments demeaning hajj. Latif Siddique surrendered at Dhanmondi Model Police Station around 1:30pm on that day after two days his arrival in the country from hideout in India in the face of outrage from several quarters.

He was produced before Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Atiqur Rahman’s court around 2:30pm.
After a short hearing of the case filed by pro-BNP lawyer Abed Raza over hurting Muslims’ religious sentiments, the magistrate ordered police to lock up Latif Siddique in jail. Latif Siddiqui was accused of around 22 cases filed in 18 districts for offending religious sentiments. There were multiple arrest warrants against him.