Indian Penal Code,1860
Act No : 45
Section :
Intentional omission to apprehend on the part of public servant boundto apprehend person under sentence or lawfully committed.
222. Intentional omission to apprehend on the part of publicservant bound to apprehend person under sentence or lawfullycommitted.--Whoever, being a public servant, legally bound as suchpublic servant to apprehend or to keep in confinement any person undersentence of a Court of Justice for any offence 2*[or lawfullycommitted to custody], intentionally omits to apprehend such person,or intentionally suffers such person to escape or intentionally aidssuch person in escaping or attempting to escape from such confinement,shall be punished as follows, that is to say:- with 1*[imprisonment for life] or with imprisonment of eitherdescription for a term which may extend to fourteen years, with orwithout fine, if the person in confinement, or who ought to have beenapprehended, is under sentence of death; or with imprisonment of either description for a term which mayextend to seven years, with or without fine, if the person inconfinement, or who, ought to have been apprehended, is subject, by asentence of a Court of Justice, or by virtue of a commutation of suchsentence, to 1*[imprisonment for life] 3*** 4*** 5*** 6*** orimprisonment for a term of ten years or upwards; or with imprisonment of either description for a term which mayextend to three years, or with fine, or with both, if the person inconfinement, or who ought to have been apprehended is subject, by asentence of a Court of Justice, to imprisonment for a term notextending to ten years 2*[or if the person was lawfully committed tocustody].
