BNS · Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023
Section 261 — Escape from confinement or custody negligently suffered by public servant.
Replaces IPC Section 223.
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 simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both.
Nearby sections
- 258 Commitment for trial or confinement by person having authority who knows that he is acting contrary to law
- 259 Intentional omission to apprehend on part of public servant bound to apprehend.
- 260 Intentional omission to apprehend on part of public servant bound to apprehend person under sentence or lawfully committed.
- 262 Resistance or obstruction by a person to his lawful apprehension.
- 263 Resistance or obstruction to lawful apprehension of another person.
- 264 Omission to apprehend, or sufferance of escape, on part of public servant, in cases not otherwise provided for
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