Section 260: Whoever, being a public servant, legally bound as such public servant to Intentional

apprehend or to keep in confinement any person under sentence of a Court for any omission to
apprehend on
offence or lawfully committed to custody, intentionally omits to apprehend such person, part of public
or intentionally suffers such person to escape or intentionally aids such person in escaping servant bound
or attempting to escape from such confinement, shall be punished,— to apprehend
person under
(a) with imprisonment for life or with imprisonment of either description for a sentence or
lawfully
term which may extend to fourteen years, with or without fine, if the person in committed.
confinement, or who ought to have been apprehended, is under sentence of
death; or

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(b) with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to
seven years, with or without fine, if the person in confinement or who ought to have
been apprehended, is subject, by a sentence of a Court, or by virtue of a commutation
of such sentence, to imprisonment for life or imprisonment for a term of ten years, or
upwards; or

(c) with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to
three years, or with fine, or with both, if the person in confinement or who ought to
have been apprehended, is subject by a sentence of a Court to imprisonment for a
term not extending to ten years or if the person was lawfully committed to custody.