Section 137 – “Public Servant Framing Incorrect Record or Writing or
Mistranslating Document with Intent to cause Injury or to save
person from Punishment or Property from Forfeiture”: Whoever,
being a public servant and being as such public servant charged with the
preparation of any record or other writing or with the translation of any
document, frames that record or writing or translates that document in a
manner which he knows or believes to be incorrect intending thereby or
knowing himself to be likely thereby to cause any of the results mentioned
in section 136, commits an offence and shall on conviction, be punished
with imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years or with fine or with
both.
Section 138 - “Public Servant in Judicial Proceeding making a Report etc. which he
knows to be Contrary to Law”: Whoever being a public servant
intentionally makes or pronounces in any stage of judicial proceeding any
report, order, judgment or decision which he knows to be contrary to law,
commits an offence and shall on conviction, be punished with
imprisonment for a term not exceeding seven years or with fine or with
both.
Section 139 - “Commitment for Trial or Confinement by person having Authority
who knows that he is Acting Contrary to Law”: Whoever, being a
public servant authorized by law to commit persons for trial or to
confinement or to keep persons in confinement intentionally commits any
person for trial or to confinement or keeps any person in confinement
knowing that in so doing he is acting contrary to law, commits an offence
and shall on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term not
exceeding seven years or with fine or with both.
Section 140 - “Public Servant Intentionally Omitting to Arrest, or Permitting or
Aiding Escape from Confinement or Custody”: Whoever being a public
servant whose duty is as such public servant to arrest any person or to
keep any person in confinement or custody, intentionally refuses to arrest
such person or intentionally suffers such person to escape or intentionally
aids such person in escaping or attempting to escape from such
confinement or custody, commits an offence and shall on conviction, be
punished as follows:
(a) with imprisonment for a term not exceeding fourteen years with or
without fine, if such person is under sentence of death;
(b) with imprisonment for a term not exceeding seven years with or without
fine if such person is under sentence of imprisonment for a term of ten
years or more or is charged with or liable to be arrested for an offence
punishable with death;
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