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
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 of Justice, or by virtue of a commutation of such
sentence, to imprisonment for life or imprisonment for a term of ten years or upwards; or
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 of Justice, to imprisonment for a term not extending to
ten years or if the person was lawfully committed to custody.
223. Escape from confinement or custody negligently suffered by public servant:
Whoever, being a public servant legally bound as such public servant to keep in
confinement any person charged with or convicted of any offence or lawfully committed to
custody, negligently suffers such persons to escape from confinement, shall be punished
with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with
both.
224. Resistance or obstruction by a person to his lawful apprehension: Whoever
intentionally offers any resistance or illegal obstruction to the lawful apprehension of
himself for any offence with which he is charged or of which he has been convicted; or
escapes or attempts to escape from any custody in which he is lawfully detained for any
such offence, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which
may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both.
Explanation: The punishment in this section is in addition to the punishment for which the
person to be apprehended or detained in custody was liable for the offence with which he
was charged, or of which he was convicted.
225. Resistance or obstruction to lawful apprehension of another person: Whoever
intentionally offers any resistance or illegal obstruction to the lawful apprehension of any
other person for an offence, or rescue or attempts to rescue any other person from any
custody in which that person is lawfully detained for an offence, shall be punished with
imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine,
or with both;
or, 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 life, or imprisonment for a term which may extend to ten years, shall be
punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three
years, and shall also be liable to fine;