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Section 30: Permitting escape of person in custody.

The Indo-Tibetan Border Police Force Act, 1992Central Act · Act 35 of 1992

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, detachment 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 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.

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ActThe Indo-Tibetan Border Police Force Act, 1992
Section30
Marginal notePermitting escape of person in custody.
JurisdictionCentral
StatusIn force as published by the source

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