Chapter VI · Of Offences Against the State

Public servant negligently suffering such prisoner to escape

Section 129 · Pakistan Penal Code

Save and use in your cases · free

Not sure what this means? Get it in simple words, in English and Urdu.

Whoever, being a public servant and having the custody of any State prisoner or prisoner of war, negligently suffers such prisoner to escape from any place of confinement in which such prisoner is confined, shall be punished with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years, and shall also be liable to fine.