Penal Code
139
(c)
if the person to be apprehended or rescued, or attempted
to be rescued, is charged with or liable to be apprehended
for an offence punishable with death, shall be punished
with imprisonment for a term which may extend to seven
years, and shall also be liable to fine;
(d)
if the person to be apprehended or rescued, or attempted
to be rescued, is liable, under the sentence of a Court,
or by virtue of a commutation of such a sentence, to
imprisonment for a term of ten years or upwards, shall
be punished with imprisonment for a term which may
extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine;
or
(e)
if the person to be apprehended or rescued, or attempted to
be rescued, is under sentence of death, shall be punished
with imprisonment for a term which may extend to
twenty years, and shall also be liable to fine.
Public servant omitting to apprehend or suffering other persons
to escape in cases not already provided for
225a. (1) Whoever, being a public servant legally bound as such
public servant to apprehend or to keep in confinement any person
in any case not provided for in section 221, 222 or 223, or in
any other law for the time being in force, omits to apprehend
that person or suffers him to escape from confinement shall be
punished—
(a)
if he does so intentionally, with imprisonment for a term
which may extend to three years or with fine or with
both; or
(b)
if he does so negligently, with imprisonment for a term
which may extend to two years or with fine or with
both.
(2) Whoever, in any case not provided for in section 224 or 225,
or in any other law for the time being in force, intentionally offers
any resistance or illegal obstruction to the lawful apprehension of
himself or of any other person, or escapes or attempts to escape
from any custody in which he is lawfully detained, or rescues or
attempts to rescue any other person from any custody in which that
person is lawfully detained, shall be punished with imprisonment
for a term which may extend to six months or with fine or with
both.
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