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Power to prohibit certain acts and taking preventive measures.- If information about any proposed unlawful assembly or gathering in respect of crimes to be committed against any particular couple or persons in the name of honour or tradition, comes to the knowledge of any police officer or any officer of the District Administration, they shall: (i) Forthwith intimate the jurisdictional Deputy Superintendent of Police and Superintendent of Police; (ii) The District Magistrate shall immediately issue an order prohibiting the convening of such unlawful assembly and the doing of any act towards the commission of any offence under this Act by any person in any area specified there under and such order shall be immediately published in a local newspaper and delivered to such persons of the said unlawful assembly; (iii) The Sub-Divisional Magistrate or District Magistrate may take such steps as may be necessary to give effect to such order including by giving appropriate directions to the police authorities concerned; (iv) The District Magistrate shall also take such steps as may be necessary to ensure the safety of the persons targeted pursuant to the illegal decisions taken by the unlawful assembly including preventive and prohibitory actions under the Bharathiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhitha, 2023(Central Act 46 of 2023); and (v) The District Magistrate/Superintendent of Police shall deal with the complaint regarding threat administered to such couple/family with utmost sensitivity. If necessary, they may be provided logistical support for solemnizing their marriage and/or for being duly registered under police protection, if they so desire. After the marriage, if the couple so desire, they can be provided accommodation on payment of nominal charges in the safe house initially for a period of one month to be extended on monthly basis but not exceeding one year in aggregate, depending on their threat assessment on a case-to-case basis.