Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita
Section 261
Whoever, being a public servant legally bound as such public servant to keep
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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. Resistance or obstruction by a person to his lawful apprehension.