\\\'Attempts to save top cop\\\'s son in hit-and-run case\\\'

Some people are ‘trying to save’ the son of a top police officer who allegedly ran over a man while driving his father’s car without a licence in Dhaka city. Zafar Sadique, 23, son of CID’s Additional Deputy Inspector General (ADIG) Mozammel Hossain, has already walked free on bail. Buying house official Mrityunjoy Acharya Mithu, 48, was run over by a car on Thursday at Banani’s Chairmanbarhi. ADIG’s son Sadique, who was driving the white private vehicle sporting a ‘police’ tag, had no driving licence either, police said. Mithu’s brother Ujjal Acharya has filed a case in connection with the incident. He claims there are attempts to hush up the incident. Sadique’s involvement in the hit-and-run case came to light after a picture of a white car, sporting police tag, went viral on the social media. He was detained and produced in court. The ADIG’s son has been charged under Section 304 (B) for ‘causing death by rash driving or riding on a public way’. In the event of a guilty finding, he will have to serve maximum three years in jail or pay a fine or do both. It is clear that no charge has been brought for driving someone else's vehicle sporting a 'police' tag. Speaking to this correspondent, plaintiff Acharya claimed they had refused cash offers to sweep the incident under the rug. ‘ADIG Mozammel, too, tried to cover up by saying ‘what is done, cannot be undone’,’ he alleged. He said the ADIG had come to their Kazirparha residence on Sunday during his brother’s Shraddha or a ritualistic death ceremony. ‘He (the ADIG) came to our house suddenly and left after about 10 minutes. My two nieces shouted at him, ‘your son has killed our father’, before breaking down in tears,’ Acharya said. He further claimed they had been given a proposal to settle the matter for Tk 300,000 when his brother’s body was kept at Dhaka Medical College Hospital, according to bdnews24.com.