BNS Section 261 — Escape from confinement or custody negligently suffered by public servant
Section 261 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 addresses “Escape from confinement or custody negligently suffered by public servant”. Read the provision below with its qualifications, exceptions and chapter context; the official source is linked alongside it.
261. Escape from confinement or custody negligently suffered by public servant.—Whoever, being a public servant legally bound as such public servant to keep 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. ¶
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