BNS Section 157 — Public servant negligently suffering such prisoner to escape
Section 157 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 addresses “Public servant negligently suffering such prisoner to escape”. Read the provision below with its qualifications, exceptions and chapter context; the official source is linked alongside it.
157. Public servant negligently suffering such prisoner to escape.—Whoever, being a public servant and having the custody of any State prisoner or prisoner of war, negligently suffers such prisoner to escape from any place of confinement in which such prisoner is confined, shall be punished with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years, and shall also be liable to fine. ¶
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