260. Whoever, being a public servant, legally bound as such public
servant to
apprehend or to keep in confinement any person under sentence of a Court for
any offence or lawfully committed to custody, 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,-
(a) with imprisonment for life or with imprisonment of either description
for a
term which may extend to fourteen years, with or without fine, if the person
in confinement, or who ought to have been apprehended, is under sentence of
death; or
(b) with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, with or without fine, if the person in confinement or who ought to have been apprehended, is subject, by a sentence of a Court, or by virtue of a commutation of such sentence, to imprisonment for life or imprisonment for a term of ten years, or upwards; or
(c) with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both, if the person in confinement or who ought to have been apprehended, is subject by a sentence of a Court to imprisonment for a term not extending to ten years or if the person was lawfully committed to custody.
Section 251 Offering gift or restoration of property in consideration of screening offender
Section 252 Taking gift to help to recover stolen property, etc
Section 253 Harbouring offender who has escaped from custody or whose apprehension has been ordered
Section 254 Penalty for harbouring robbers or dacoits
Section 257 Public servant in judicial proceeding corruptly making report, etc., contrary to law
Section 259 Intentional omission to apprehend on part of public servant bound to apprehend