## IPC 225A

### IPC 225A — Omission to apprehend, or sufferance of escape, on part of public servant, in cases not otherwise, provided for
- https://unisonlegal.in/statutes/ipc/225A

> 1[225A. Omission to apprehend, or sufferance of escape, on part of public servant, in cases not
otherwise, provided for.-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-
(a) if he does so intentionally, with imprisonment of either description for a term which may
extend to three years, or with fine, or with both; and
(b) if he does so negligently, with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to two
years, or with fine, or with both.