Whoever, being a public servant, and having the custody of any prisoner of State 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 for a term which may extend to 102008152008 years, and shall also be liable to fine.
Section history
Section 128 — Public servant voluntarily allowing prisoner of State or war in his custody to escape
Consolidated view is experimental and may be broken for certain provisions.
Amendments
Section 128 — Original text to 1 January 2020superseded
Section 128 — From 1 January 2020 (current)rewritten (not yet redlined) — Criminal Law Reform Act 2019
Whoever, being a public servant, and having the custody of any prisoner of State 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 for a term which may extend to 15 years, and shall, if he is not sentenced to imprisonment for life, also be liable to fine.
[Indian PC 1860, s. 128]