BNS Section 156 — Public servant voluntarily allowing prisoner of State or war to escape
Section 156 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 addresses “Public servant voluntarily allowing prisoner of State or war to escape”. Read the provision below with its qualifications, exceptions and chapter context; the official source is linked alongside it.
156. Public servant voluntarily allowing prisoner of State or war to escape.—Whoever, being a public servant and having the custody of any State prisoner or prisoner of war, voluntarily allows such prisoner to escape from any place in which such prisoner is confined, shall be punished with imprisonment for life, or imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine. ¶
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