Section 260.   Intentional omission to apprehend on part of public servant bound to apprehend person under sentence or lawfully committed.

Whoever, being a public servant, legally bound as such public
servant to apprehend or to keep in confinement any person under sentence of a Court for any offence or
lawfully committed to custody, intentionally omits to apprehend such person, or intentionally suffers such
person to escape or intentionally aids such person in escaping or attempting to escape from such
confinement, shall be punished,—
(a) with imprisonment for life or with imprisonment of either description for a term which may
extend to fourteen years, with or without fine, if the person in 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.