Dhaka, March 9 -- A BNP leader's chauffeur has been accused of beating a female police constable with an iron rod in Dhaka's Savar.

Additional Superintendent of Police (Savar Circle) Shahinur Kabir said the incident had occurred at the Thana Bus Stand in the Savar municipality area on Sunday afternoon.

Wounded constable Ety Khanam, 38, works at Gazipur's Kaliakair Police Station. She lives in the Savar Police Station quarters.

She has received first aid at Upazila Health Complex. She also lodged a complaint at the Savar Model Police Station over the incident.

Ety said, "My duty was in the afternoon. I was heading to the Thana Bus Stand on a rickshaw in civil dress to travel to Kaliakair Police Station from there.

"After my rickshaw r...