Intentional omission to apprehend on part of public servant bound to apprehend person under sentence or lawfully committed
Chapter 14: False evidence and offences against public justice
Whoever, being a public servant, legally bound as such public servant to apprehend or to keep in confinement any person under sentence of a Court for any offence or lawfully committed to custody, intentionally omits to apprehend such person, or intentionally suffers such person to escape or intentionally aids such person in escaping or attempting to escape from such confinement, shall be punished,—
(a) with imprisonment for life or with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to fourteen years, with or without fine, if the person in confinement, or who ought to have been apprehended, is under sentence of death; or
(b) with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, with or without fine, if the person in confinement or who ought to have been apprehended, is subject, by a sentence of a Court, or by virtue of a commutation of such sentence, to imprisonment for life or imprisonment for a term of ten years, or upwards; or
(c) with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both, if the person in confinement or who ought to have been apprehended, is subject by a sentence of a Court to imprisonment for a term not extending to ten years or if the person was lawfully committed to custody.
The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (Act No. 45 of 2023). As printed in the Gazette on 25 December 2023. Later amendments, if any, are not included.
Related sections
- 257Public servant in judicial proceeding corruptly making report, etc., contrary to lawIPC 219
- 258Commitment for trial or confinement by person having authority who knows that he is acting contrary to lawIPC 220
- 259Intentional omission to apprehend on part of public servant bound to apprehendIPC 221
- 261Escape from confinement or custody negligently suffered by public servantIPC 223
- 262Resistance or obstruction by a person to his lawful apprehensionIPC 224
- 263Resistance or obstruction to lawful apprehension of another personIPC 225