This section covers public servant negligently allowing prisoner to escape in the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS 2003).
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.
What was the old IPC code for Section 157 of BNS 2023?
In the Indian Penal Code, public servant negligently allowing prisoner to escape was covered in S. 129.