IPC Section 221 — Intentional omission to apprehend on the part of public servant bound to apprehend

Summary

A public servant who is required by law to arrest someone or keep them in custody for an offence commits an offence if they deliberately fail to arrest that person, allow them to escape, or help them escape or try to escape.

Official Text

Whoever, being a pubic servant, legally bound as such public servant to apprehend or to keep in confinement any person charged with or liable to be apprehended for an offence, intentionally omits to apprehend such person, or intentionally suffers such person to escape, or intentionally aids such person in escaping or attempting to escape from such confinement, shall be punished as follows, that is to say:

Referred to by

• IPC §225A — Omission to apprehend, or sufferance of escape, on part of public servant, in cases not otherwise, provided for

Old <-> New Code Mapping

• BNS §259 — Intentional omission to apprehend on part of public servant bound to apprehend