IPC Section 223 — Escape from confinement or custody negligently suffered by public servant

Summary

If you are a public servant whose job legally requires you to keep a person in confinement—someone who has been charged with or convicted of a crime, or lawfully placed in your custody—and you carelessly allow that person to escape, you can be punished. The punishment for this negligence is simple imprisonment for up to two years, or a fine, or both.

Official Text

Whoever, being a public servant legally bound as such public servant to keep in confinement any person charged with or convicted of any offence or lawfully committed to custody, negligently suffers such person to escape from confinement, shall be punished with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both.

Referred to by

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

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• BNS §261 — Escape from confinement or custody negligently suffered by public servant