Section 157
Public servant negligently suffering such prisoner to escape.
The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023
About this Act
An Act to consolidate and amend the provisions relating to offences and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
Chapter VII: Of offences against the state Sections 147 to 158
Whoever, being a public servant and having the custody of any State prisoner or prisoner of war, negligently suffers such prisoner to escape from any place of confinement in which such prisoner is confined, shall be punished with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years, and shall also be liable to fine.