Dhaka: The daughter in law of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia and wife of late Arafat Rahman Koko went to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) to visit her ailing mother in law on Saturday.

Sharmila Rahman Shithi, daughter in law of the BNP chief went to BSMMU after Khaleda Zia was taken to the BSMMU from the jail at 11.30am for medical check-up.

Police restricted Shithi when she along with her two daughters tried to enter the cabin block, reports the UNB.

Then she waited at the hospital premises in their car for some time while the leaders and activists of Jatiyatabadi Mahila Dal surrounded her and chanted anti-government slogans.

Police arrested 4 to 5 people among the sloganeers while Shithi went to the room of hospital director.

Police also barred Afroza Abbas, president of Mahila Dal and wife of BNP standing committee member Mirza Abbas from visiting Khaleda.

However, Khaleda’s two lawyers—Sanaullah Miah and Barrister Mahbub Uddin Khokon—met Khaleda at the hospital while the BNP chief’s personal physician, Mamun, was also present.

The BNP chairperson was taken back to Dhaka central jail from BSMMU after her medical check-up and tests.

A black Pajero jeep carrying Khaleda left BSMMU around 1.33pm amid tight security.

She was offered a wheelchair to go to the cabin block on the 4th floor of the hospital but she refused and walked to the lift.

Two members of a medical board earlier formed by the government and her personal physician examined her health.

Later, the doctors suggested conducting some medical tests, including x-ray on her knee and two hands and blood test.

After the x-ray in Radiology and Imaging department and blood test, she was taken back to the jail.

Khaleda Zia fell sick in the jail on March 29 and postponed a scheduled meeting with its secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir.

On April 1, the government formed a medical team with four professors of Dhaka Medical College Hospital to examine her health condition and ensure her treatment in the jail.

On February 8 last, a special court here sentenced Khaleda to five years’ rigorous imprisonment in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case.