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Constable acquitted in threat case against ACP

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Mere threat does not constitute an offence, rules Delhi court

NEW DELHI: A court here has acquitted a Delhi Police constable who was charged with criminally intimidating an Assistant Commissioner of Police way back in 1995.

Metropolitan Magistrate Ravinder Bedi acquitted Constable Rajeev Verma saying mere threat did not constitute an offence. The threat must achieve the level of alarm for it to constitute an offence, the court held.

Complaint lodged

A complaint was lodged against Constable Verma by ACP H. S. Rathi, now retired, when the constable threatened him over telephone.

The accused was angry over his salary being deducted as he had failed to explain his absence from duty.

The prosecution had examined seven witnesses, including the ACP and his orderly who had claimed that he had heard the conversation.

No evidence

However, the court said there was no evidence to establish the intention to cause alarm by extending threats on the part of the accused.

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