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Penal Code, 1860 (Act No. XLV of 1860).
or, if the person to be apprehended, or the person rescued or attempted to be
rescued, is charged with or liable to be apprehended for an offence punishable
with 86[ imprisonment for life] or imprisonment for a term which may extend to
ten years, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term
which may extend to three years, and shall also be liable to fine;
or, 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 of either description for a term which may
extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine;
or, if the person to be apprehended or rescued, or attempted to be rescued, is
liable under the sentence of a Court of Justice, or by virtue of a commutation of
such a sentence, to 87[ imprisonment for life], 88[ * * *] or imprisonment, for a
term of ten years or upwards, shall be punished with imprisonment of either
description for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable
to fine;
or, if the person to be apprehended or rescued, or attempted to be rescued, is
under sentence of death, shall be punished with 89[ imprisonment for life] or
imprisonment of either description for a term not exceeding ten years, and shall
also liable to fine.
Omission to
apprehend, or
sufferance of escape,
on part of public
servant, in cases not
otherwise provided
for
90[ 225A. 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, section 222 or section 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 of either description for a term
which may extend to three years, or with fine or with both; and
(b) if he does so negligently, with simple imprisonment for a term which may
extend to two years, or with fine, or with both.
Resistance or
obstruction to lawful
apprehension, or
escape or rescue, in
cases not otherwise
provided for
225B. Whoever, in any case not provided for in section 224 or section 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 of either
description for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine, or with
both.]
226. [Omitted by section 18 of the Penal Code (Amendment) Ordinance, 1985
(Ordinance No. XLI of 1985).]
227. Whoever, having accepted any conditional remission of punishment,
knowingly violates any condition on which such remission was granted, shall be
punished with the punishment to which he was originally sentenced, if he has
already suffered no part of that punishment, and if he has suffered any part of
that punishment, then with so much of that punishment as he has not already
suffered.
228. Whoever intentionally offers any insult, or causes any interruption to any
public servant, while such public servant is sitting in any stage of a judicial
proceeding, shall be punished with simple imprisonment for a term which may
extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to one thousand taka, or
with both.
91[ Omitted]
Violation of condition
of remission of
punishment
Intentional insult or
interruption to public
servant sitting in
judicial proceeding
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