Section 27: Permitting escape of person in custody.

The Border Security Force Act, 1968Central Act · Act 47 of 1968

Any person subject to this Act who commits any of the following offences, that is to say,—

(a) when in command of a guard, picket, patrol or post, releases without proper authority, whether wilfully or without reasonable excuse, any person committed to his charge, or refuses to receive any prisoner or person so committed; or

(b) wilfully or without reasonable excuse allows to escape any person who is committed to his charge,or whom it is his duty to keep or guard,

shall, on conviction by a Security Force Court, be liable, if he has acted wilfully, to suffer imprisonment for a term which may extend to ten years or such less punishment as is in this Act mentioned: and if he has not acted wilfully, to suffer imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years or such less punishment as is in this Act mentioned.

Where this provision sits

Act	The Border Security Force Act, 1968
Section	27
Marginal note	Permitting escape of person in custody.
Jurisdiction	Central
Status	In force as published by the source

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