Section 258: Whoever, being in any office which gives him legal authority to commit persons Commitment
for trial or to confinement, or to keep persons in confinement, corruptly or maliciously for trial or
confinement by
commits any person for trial or to confinement, or keeps any person in confinement, in the person having
exercise of that authority knowing that in so doing he is acting contrary to law, shall be authority who
punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven knows that he is
acting contrary
years, or with fine, or with both. to law.