BNS Section 252 – Penalty for not apprehending or for releasing without due authority any person charged with or liable to be apprehended for an offence
Chapter 14: False Evidence and Offences Against Public Justice ·
Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023
BNS Section 252
IPC S.217
✓ Bailable
Non-Cognizable
⚖ Magistrate Court
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 221A or 222 omits to apprehend that person or suffers him to escape from confinement shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years or with fine or with both.
ℹ️ Classification & Key Notes
Up to 3 years or fine or both. Non-cognizable. Bailable. Triable by Magistrate of first class.
