A rickshaw-puller was critically injured after a car owned by Sibgatullah, retired additional inspector general of police and former chief of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), hit a rickshaw on Culvert Road in the capital’s Paltan area on Saturday.
The vehicle, bearing registration number Dhaka Metro-Gha-19-7077, struck the rickshaw from the side on a branch road near Paltan Tower, approximately 100 metres to the right of the tower.
At the time of the collision, the personal car of former CID chief was being driven by his son.
Following the incident, local people immediately rescued the critically injured rickshaw-puller and transported him to Pangu Hospital for medical treatment, where his condition remains critical.
Officers from Paltan police seized the vehicle involved in the road accident and took it into their custody, and the car is currently kept at Paltan Police Station.
