This section covers public servant voluntarily allowing prisoner of state or war to escape in the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS 2003).
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 a fine.
What was the old IPC code for Section 156 of BNS 2023?
In the Indian Penal Code, public servant voluntarily allowing prisoner of state or war to escape was covered in S. 128.