Chairman of Bosnia's High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council (HJPC) Milan Tegeltija asked for police protection, triggered by the statement of the State Security Minister Dragan Mektic, who called for a mass gathering in front of the state judicial institutions and for pressuring officials to resign.

Minister Mektic wrote on his Tweeter profile that he would be at the helm of this gathering.

“In order to save the state and ourselves, it is necessary to topple this criminal HJPC. I propose a mass gathering of the citizens next week in front of the Prosecutor's Office and the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina (which is the seat of the HJPC) as a democratic sort of pressure towards resignations. I will be at the helm of that movement,” Mektic tweeted on Friday.

The call came amidst the allegations that Tegeltija is involved in a corruption affair, which he denied calling the allegations malicious.

Investigative news outlet Zurnal.info published an article last week, claiming that Tegeltija, who is the chief of the state body overseeing the work of Bosnia's judicial institutions, took a bribe in return for speeding up a case at a local court.

Prosecutors formed a case to investigate these allegations and the Security Minister called on Tegeltija to resign.

Now that the minister also called for a mass gathering, Tegeltija asked for police protection saying that his personal safety during the stay in Sarajevo is in jeopardy.

“Such calls, which come from the Security Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina, as a direct representative of executive authority in Bosnia and Herzegovina in charge of the security sector, pose a special threat both for the Chairman, Deputy Chairman and other members of the HJPC, as well as for the protection of constitutional order of Bosnia and Herzegovina,” said Tegeltija, urging the prosecutors to review Mektic's words “in context of the Criminal Code provisions.”