Course of action against “Threats”

MR. JABBAR, a father of two residing in Kallyanpur, received an eerie phone call last night. In a muffled voice, the man from the other side demanded a sum of taka four lacs from Mr. Jabbar who is a mere banker. If the demand is not met harm will be brought to the little kids, the man said before hanging up the phone after what seemed to be a perplexing phone call for Mr. Jabbar. He is genuinely confused and of course intimidated. He knows these things are not to be taken lightly.

There are ways of legal regress in situations like above. You need to take the following steps:

First file a General Diary (GD) by going to your nearest police station. If in the assessment of police the issue is deemed to require greater attention, they themselves will submit a non-prosecution report to take action against those involved.

Filing of a General Diary is simple, really. It's like every other application that you wrote in high school, but you have to address it to the Officer In-Charge (OC) of the police station. You explain to him your predicament and state your personal information such as name, address and phone number.

There is also an alternative course of action. You can bring court proceedings under Section 107 of The Code of Criminal Procedure 1898.According to section 107 whenever  a District Magistrate or any other Executive Magistrate is informed that any person is likely to commit a breach of the peace or disturb the public tranquility, the Magistrate may require such person to show cause why he should not be ordered to execute a bond, with or without sureties, for keeping the peace for such period not exceeding one year as the Magistrate thinks fit to fix.

So course of action will be brought through the Executive Magistrate. If the court finds the alleged persons indeed liable, they will be asked to come to the court and sign a bond. Through the deponent they will promise to refrain from making further threats.

By Law Desk.