IPC Section 129 — Public servant negligently suffering such prisoner to escape

Summary

If you are a public official responsible for guarding a state prisoner or a prisoner of war, and you carelessly allow that prisoner to escape from where they are held, you can be punished with simple imprisonment for up to three years and also be fined.

Official Text

Whoever, being a public servant and having the custody of any State prisoner or prisoner of war, negligently suffers such prisoner to escape from any place of confinement in which such prisoner is confined, shall be punished with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years, and shall also be liable to fine.

Old <-> New Code Mapping

• BNS §157 — Public servant negligently suffering such prisoner to escape