Metropolitan Area,27 Khulna Metropolitan area,28 and Rajshahi Metropolitan area.29 Alternatively, the respective Metropolitan Police Acts for these metropolitan areas provide that a police officer offering personal violence and threats against any person in his custody shall be punished with imprisonment for a term, which may extend to one year and/or with a fine which may extend to two thousand taka. Similarly, the Penal Code of 186030 – the principal penal legislation of the country – 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.31 The prescribed punishment for this offence is imprisonment, either simple or rigorous, for a term, which may extend to three years and fine. Herein no limit of fine is prescribed and as such the amount of fine32 to which the offender is liable is unlimited though it shall not be excessive. 27 See, Chittagong Metropolitan Police Ordinance, 1978 (Ordinance No. XLVIII of 1978), Section 3. 28 See, Khulna Metropolitan Police Ordinance, 1985 (Ordinance No. LII of 1985), Section 3. 29 See, Rajshahi Metropolitan Police Act, 1992 (Act No. XXIII of 1992), Section 3. 30 Act No. XLV of 1860. 31 Wrongful confinement means restraining a person in such a manner as to prevent that person from proceeding beyond certain circumscribing limits. See, Section 340. 32 Section 348. 30