Section 225
Resistance or obstruction to lawful apprehension of another person
of Penal Code
Whoever intentionally offers any resistance or illegal obstruction to the lawful apprehension of any other person for an offence, or rescues, or attempts to rescue, any other person from any custody in which that person is a lawfully detained for an offence -
(a)
shall be punished with imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years, fine or both;
(b)
if the person to be apprehended, or the person rescued or attempted to be rescued, is charged with, or liable to be apprehended for, an offence punishable with imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 years and fine;
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(c)
if the person to be apprehended. or rescued or attempted to be rescued, is charged with, or liable to be apprehended for, an offence punishable with death, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term not exceeding 7 years and fine;
(d)
if the person to be apprehended, or rescued or attempted to be rescued, is liable, under the sentence of a Court of Justice, or by virtue of a commutation of such a sentence, to imprisonment for a term of 10 years or more, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term not exceeding 7 years and fine; or
(e)
if the person to be apprehended, or rescued or attempted to be rescued, is under sentence of death, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term not exceeding 15 years and fine.
Omission to apprehend, or sufferance or escape, on part of public servant in cases not otherwise provided for 225A.
Whoever, being a public servant legally bound as such public servant to apprehend, or to keep in confinement, any person in any case not provided for in section 221, 222 or 223, or in any other written law for the time being in force, omits to apprehend that person or suffers him to escape from confinement shall be punished -
(a)
if he does so intentionally, with imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 years, fine or both; and
(b)
if he does so negligently, with imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years, fine or both.
Resistance or obstruction to lawful apprehension, or escape or rescue, in cases not provided for 225B.
Whoever, in any case not provided for in section 224 or 225 or in any other written law for the time being in force -
(a)
intentionally offers any resistance or illegal obstruction to the lawful apprehension of himself or of any other person;
(b)
escapes or attempts to escape from any custody in which he is lawfully detained; or
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(c)
rescues or attempts to rescue any other person from any custody in which that person is lawfully detained, skafi be punishedwith imprisonment for a tern noT-exceeding 6months, fine or both.