धारा 261 पहले IPC 223
Escape from confinement or custody negligently suffered by public servant
अध्याय 14: मिथ्या साक्ष्य और लोक न्याय के विरुद्ध अपराध
यह राजपत्र में छपा आधिकारिक अंग्रेज़ी पाठ है। आधिकारिक हिंदी पाठ जल्द जोड़ा जाएगा। धारा का शीर्षक भी अभी आधिकारिक अंग्रेज़ी में है।
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.
भारतीय न्याय संहिता, 2023 (2023 का अधिनियम संख्यांक 45). जैसा 25 दिसंबर 2023 को राजपत्र में छपा। बाद के संशोधन, यदि कोई हों, शामिल नहीं।
जुड़ी हुई धाराएँ
- 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