A man from Omadhoo has been fined a total of MVR 116,700 after threatening to kill a doctor who refused to administer him a pain-relief injection and warning police officers that he would burn down the island’s police post.
The case was heard by the Omadhoo Magistrate Court in Alif Dhaalu Atoll, which replaced the man’s original prison sentences with financial penalties.
The State charged the man under two counts of threatening to cause immediate harm under the Maldives Penal Code. One charge concerned threats made against a foreign doctor working at the island’s health centre, while the other related to threats directed at police officers who responded to the incident.
According to the case details, the incident occurred in 2024 after the man visited the health centre seeking treatment for a fish bone stuck in his throat.
The man became upset after the doctor declined to give him an injection to relieve the pain. He subsequently threatened to kill the doctor and went to the area near the doctor’s residence.
When police officers arrived and attempted to advise him, he also threatened to burn down the island’s police post.
During the court proceedings, the man claimed that he was under the influence of drugs at the time of the incident and had shouted because he could not bear the pain he was experiencing.
Both charges were proven, and the court initially sentenced him to imprisonment. However, the prison sentences were later converted into fines.
For threatening the police officers, his original 30-day prison sentence was replaced with a fine of MVR 112,200. Meanwhile, the 22-day prison sentence for threatening the doctor was converted into a fine of MVR 4,500.
The total amount he is required to pay is MVR 116,700.
The two cases, which stemmed from the 2024 incident in Omadhoo, were concluded by the island’s magistrate court in September this year.
