or, 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 of either description for a term which may extend to seven
years, and shall also be liable to fine;
or, 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 life or imprisonment, for a term of ten years or upwards,
shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to
seven years, and shall also be liable to fine;
or, if the person to be apprehended or rescued, or attempted to be rescued, is
under sentence of death, shall be punished with imprisonment for life or imprisonment of
either description for a term not exceeding ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.
225-A. Omission to apprehend, or sufferance of escape, on part of public servant, in
cases not otherwise provided for: 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, Section 222 or Section 223, or in any other 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 of either description for a term which may
extend to three years, or with fine or with both; and
(b) if he does so negligently, with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to two
years, or with fine, or with both.
Section 225-A ins. by the Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, X of 1886.
225-B. Resistance or obstruction to lawful apprehension, or escape or rescue in
cases not otherwise provided for: Whoever, in any case not provided for in Section 224
or Section 225 or in any other law for the time being in force, intentionally offers any
resistance or illegal obstruction to the lawful apprehension of himself or of any other
person, or escapes or attempts to escape from any custody in which he is lawfully
detained, or rescues or attempts to rescue any other person from any custody in which
that person is lawfully detained, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description
for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine, or with both.
Sec. 225-B ins. by the Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, X of 1886.
226. Unlawful return from transportation : [Omitted by the Law Reforms Ordinance, XII of
1972, Section 2 and Sched.]
227. Violation of condition of remission of punishment: Whoever, having accepted
any conditional remission of punishment, knowingly violates any condition on which such
remission was granted/shall be punished with the punishment to which he was originally