Tawfique Nawaz, husband of Education Minister Dipu Moni undergoing treatment in a hospital in city for severe illness following a brain stroke.

Nawaz, 72, a prominent Supreme Court lawyer, had been unconscious for three weeks since he suffered the stroke on July 17

 Abdul Alim Khan, Private Secretary of Education minister Dipu Moni confirmed the news.

Family members of Nawaz, a trustee board member of Transparency International, Bangladesh, are preparing are to move him to Mumbai Kokilaben Hospital in India next Sunday.

Specialists from India performed a micro-stenting procedure on Nawaz at the United Hospital in the capital on July 26 and another specialist from Singapore saw him the following day.