CAT: A Study on Bangladesh Compliance National Legislation Prohibiting Torture at a Glance Article 35 (5) of the Constitution stipulates that “no person shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman, or degrading punishment or treatment”. Section 29 of the Police Act of 1861 provides that every police officer who shall offer any unwarrantable personal violence to any person in his custody shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding three months’ pay or to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for a period not exceeding three months or to both. Section 340 of the Penal Code of 1860 criminalises wrongful confinement of a person to extort from him or from any other person interested in him any confession, which may lead to the detection of an offence or misconduct. Sections 323 and 324 of the Penal Code criminalizes acts causing hurt and grievous hurt to any individual. Acts of ‘criminal force’ and ‘assault’ are also criminalised under the Penal Code. Section 352 of the Code provides that the commission of assault or criminal force, unless caused in consequence of grave and sudden provocation, is punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months or with fine which may extend to five hundred taka or with both. Section 506 of the Penal Code criminalizes ‘criminal intimidation’, which means, according to section of 503 of the Code, threatening a person with any injury to his person, reputation or property, or to the person or reputation of any one in whom that person is interested, with an intention to cause harm to that person, or to cause that person to do any act which he is not legally bound to do, or to omit to do any act which that person is legally entitled to do, as the means of avoiding the execution of such threat. 35