Section 264
Omission to apprehend, or sufferance of escape, on part of public servant, in cases not otherwise provided for.
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 XIV: Of false evidence and offences against public justice Sections 227 to 269
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 259, section 260 or section 261, 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.
(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.