IPC 128 — Public servant voluntarily allowing prisoner of state or war to escape

Indian Penal Code, 1860

Statutory text

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.

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