Section 127 - Public officer omitting to arrest or aiding escape.

Whoever, being a public officer whose duty it is as a public officer to arrest a person or to keep a person in confinement or custody, intentionally omits to arrest the person or intentionally suffers that person to escape or intentionally aids that person in escaping or attempting to escape from the confinement or custody, shall be punished as follows, that is to say-

(a) with imprisonment for a term which may extend to fourteen years with or without fine, if that person is under sentence of death; or

(b) with imprisonment for a term which may extend to seven years with or without fine, if that person is under sentence of imprisonment for a term of ten years or upwards or is charged with or liable to be arrested for an offence punishable with death; or

(c) with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years or with fine or with both, if that person is under sentence of imprisonment for a term not extending to ten years or is charged with or liable to be arrest-ed for an offence punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to ten years; or

(d) with imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years or with fine or with both, in a case not above specified.