BNS 156 — Public servant voluntarily allowing prisoner of State or war to escape.

Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023

Statutory text

156. Whoever, being a public servant and having the custody of any
State prisoner or prisoner of war, voluntarily allows such prisoner to escape
from any place in which such prisoner is confined, shall be punished with
imprisonment  for  life,  or  imprisonment  of  either  description  for  a  term
which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.
Public servant negligently suffering such prisoner to escape.

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