Section 261 Earlier IPC 223
Escape from confinement or custody negligently suffered by public servant
Chapter 14: False evidence and offences against public justice
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.
The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (Act No. 45 of 2023). As printed in the Gazette on 25 December 2023. Later amendments, if any, are not included.
Related sections
- 258Commitment for trial or confinement by person having authority who knows that he is acting contrary to lawIPC 220
- 259Intentional omission to apprehend on part of public servant bound to apprehendIPC 221
- 260Intentional omission to apprehend on part of public servant bound to apprehend person under sentence or lawfully committedIPC 222
- 262Resistance or obstruction by a person to his lawful apprehensionIPC 224
- 263Resistance or obstruction to lawful apprehension of another personIPC 225
- 264Omission to apprehend, or sufferance of escape, on part of public servant, in cases not otherwise provided forIPC 225A