IPC Section 225A - Omission to apprehend, or sufferance of escape, on part of public servant, in case s not

225A. Omission to apprehend, or sufferance of escape, on part of public servant, in case s not

otherwise, provided for. --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 221, section 222

or section 223, or in any other law for the tim e 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.