Penal Code
137
Intentional omission to apprehend on the part of a public
servant bound by law to apprehend person under sentence
of a Court
222. 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 as follows:
(a)
with imprisonment for a term which may extend to
twenty years, with or without fine, if the person in
confinement, or who ought to have been apprehended,
is under sentence of death;
(b)
with imprisonment 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 a term which may
extend to twenty years; or
(c)
with imprisonment 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 exceeding ten years, or if the person was
lawfully committed to custody.
Escape from confinement negligently suffered by a public
servant and facilitating or enabling any terrorist act, etc.
223. (1) Whoever, being a public servant, legally bound as such
public servant to keep in confinement any person charged with
or convicted of any offence, or lawfully committed to custody,
negligently suffers such person to escape from confinement, shall
be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to
two years or with fine or with both.
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