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

Summary

A public servant who is required by law to arrest someone or keep them in custody, but fails to do so or allows that person to escape, can be punished. This rule applies only when the situation is not already covered by other specific sections of the law.

Official Text

Whoever, being a public servant legally bound as such public servant to apprehend, or to keep in confinement, any person in any case not provided for in section 221, section 222 or section 223, or in any other law for the time being in force, omits to apprehend that person or suffers him to escape from confinement, shall be punished:

Sections referred to

• IPC §221 — Intentional omission to apprehend on the part of public servant bound to apprehend
• IPC §222 — Intentional omission to apprehend on the part of public servant bound to apprehend person under sentence or lawfully committed
• IPC §223 — Escape from confinement or custody negligently suffered by public servant

Old <-> New Code Mapping

• BNS §264 — Omission to apprehend, or sufferance of escape, on part of public servant, in cases not otherwise provided for