Important sections from the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898

Section 42-Public when to Assist Magistrates and Police:

Every person is bound to assist a Magistrate or Police Officer reasonably demanding his aid a) in the taking or preventing the escape of any person whom such Magistrate or Police Officer is authorized to arrest; b) In the prevention or suppression of a breach of the peace, or in the prevention of any injury attempted to be committed to any public property.

Section 54- When Police may arrest without any warrant :
Any police officer may, without an order from magistrate and without a warrant, arrest.

Section 57 - Arrest without warrant in non-cognizable offences :

(1) When any person who in the presence of a police-officer has committed or has been accused of committing a non-cognizable offence refuses, on demand of such officer, to give his name and residence or gives a name or residence which such officer has reason to believe to be false, he may be arrested by such officer in order that his name or residence may be ascertained.

(2) When the true name and residence of such person have been ascertained, he shall be released on his executing a bond, with or without sureties, to appear before a Magistrate if so required
Provided that, if such person is not resident in Bangladesh, the bond shall be secured by a surety or sureties resident in Bangladesh.

(3) Should the true name and residence of such person not be ascertained within twenty-four hours from the time of arrest or should he fail to execute the bond, or if so required, to furnish sufficient sureties, he shall forthwith be forwarded to the nearest magistrate having jurisdiction.

Section 127 - Assembly to disperse on command of Magistrate or police-officer :

Any Magistrate or officer in charge of a police-station may command any unlawful assembly, or any assembly of five or more persons likely to cause a disturbance of the public peace, to disperse; and it shall thereupon be the duty of the members of such assembly to disperse accordingly.

Section 133 - Conditional order for removal of nuisance.

(1) Whenever a District Magistrate, a Sub-divisional Magistrate or a Magistrate of the first class considers, on receiving a police-report or other information and on taking such evidence (if any) as he thinks fit,that any unlawful obstruction or nuisance should be removed from any way, river or channel which is or may be lawfully used by the public, or from any public place, or

that the conduct of any trade or occupation, or the keeping of any goods or merchandise, is injurious to the health or physical comfort of the community, and that in consequence such trade or occupation should be prohibited or regulated or such goods or merchandise should be removed or the keeping thereof regulated, or
that the construction of any building, or the disposal of any substance, as likely to occasion conflagration or explosion, should be prevented or stopped, or that any building, tent of structure, or any tree is in such a condition that it is likely to fall and thereby cause injury to persons living or carrying on business in the neighbourhood or passing by, and that in consequence the removal, repair or support of such building, tent or structure, or the removal or support of such tree, in necessary, or

that any tank, well or excavation adjacent to any such way or public place should be fenced is such manner as to prevent danger arising to the public, or
that any dangerous animal should be destroyed, confined or otherwise disposed of,such Magistrate may make a conditional order requiring the person causing such obstruction or nuisance, or carrying on such trade or occupation, or keeping any such goods or merchandise, or owning, possessing or controlling such building, tent structure, substance, tank, well or excavation, or owning or possessing such animal or tree, within a time to be fixed in the order,to remove such obstruction or nuisance ; or

to desist form carrying on, or to remove or regulate in such manner as may be directed, such trade or occupation ; or
to remove such goods or merchandise, or to regulate the keeping thereof in such manner as may be directed ; or
to prevent or stop the erection of, or to remove, repair or support, such building, tent or structure ; or
to remove or support such tree ; or
to alter the disposal of such substance ; or
to fence such tank, well or excavation, as the case may be; or
to destroy, confine or dispose of such dangerous animal in the manner provided in the said order ;or
if he objects so to do,to appear before himself or some other Magistrate of the first or second class at a time and place to be fixed by the order, and move to have the order set aside or modified in the manner hereinafter provided.

(2) No order duly made by a Magistrate under this section shall be called in question in any Civil Court.

From Dhaka Metropolitan Police Ordinance :

Section 17 - Police officers duty to maintain discipline :

• Ensuring smooth movement of all kind of vehicles on road.
• Prohibit on kind of construction work on road.
• Ensuring that people obeys this ordinance on rood while they are moving.

Section 18 - People to obey every reasonable order of police-officer :
according to this ordinance citizen to obey every reasonable order of police officer.

Section 20 - Every police officer have the right to search any suspicious person.

Section 26 - The Police Commissioner DMP can close any road or divert any vehicles movement temporarily.

Section 27 - Police Commissioner or behavior Police Commissioner any other police personal has the right to give order in situation given below :
(a) to ensure discipline in any procession on road,
(b) to direct any procession movement,
(c) to control use of loud speaker in public place.

Section 29 - Police Commissioner has the right to prohibit any kind of procession or public gathering.

Section 30 - For public interest Police Commissioner has the right to restrict any road or public place.

Section 31 - Police Commissioner has the authority to prohibit, control, lessen any kind of musical instruments use in public place.

Section 100 - Arrest without warrant :

According this ordinance if any body commits any offence in presence/in absence of any police officer, police has the right to arrest that offender without warrant.

 From Motor Vehicle Section:

Section-3 : No person will drive a motor vehicle without a Licenses, given by proper authority .

Section-4 : No person will drive a motor vehicle in public place, bellow the age of 18.

Section-5 : Any owner of a motor vehicle will not permit any person to drive his motor vehicle, who will not fulfillthe condition of Section 3 and 4.

Section-6 : A person holding a driving Licenses will not allow any body else to use his license .

Section-16 : If a licensing authority finds a person holding driving license,

-Habitual offender or habitual drunk
- Using his vehicle in cognizable offenses
-proved by previous his previous record that his driving is dangerous for public.than the licensing authority could cancell his Licenses

Section-33 : Every motor vehicle owner will have to registry his vehicle in local registry authority.

Section-85 : No one will exceed his motor vehicles speed limit, given by the authority.

Section-88 : Government or any authority empowered by the government for he sake of public safety can prohibit any kind of vehicle to run in any particular road.

Section-93 : person driving a car will have to give proper signal, while he is driving .

Section-95 : No person will park his vehicle in such a way from which other vehicle could get danger or any obstruction.

Section- 96 : Motor vehicles driver or conductor will not allow any body to board in the vehicle, while its in running.

Section-138: If any person drives his vehicle without a proper license than he could awarded with four months imprisonment or penalized with five hundred taka or with both.

Section-139: If any person disobeys proper authorities order or serves with wrong information than he could be awarded with one month imprisonment or penalized with five hundred taka or with both.

Section-142: If any person exceeds the driving speed limit given by the proper authority, than he could be awarded with one month imprisonment or penalized with three hundred taka or with both for first time, if he commits same offence next time than he could be awarded with three months imprisonment or penalized with five thousand taka or with both and his driving license could be suspended for one month.

Section-143: If any body drives his car with such a speed which could cause harm to others than he will consider as an offender, for this offence he could be awarded with six months imprisonment or penalized with five hundred taka or with both and his driving license could be suspended for a limited time, if he commits same offence in three years he could be awarded with six months imprisonment or penalized with one thousand taka or with both and his driving license could be suspended for one month.

Section-144: If a person drives his car in drunk condition than he could be awarded with three months imprisonment or penalized with one thousand taka or with both for the first time, if he commits same offence next time than for each time he could be awarded with two years imprisonment or penalized with one thousand taka or with both and each time his driving license could be suspended for a period.