Whoever, being a public servant legally bound as such public servant to apprehend, or to keep in confinement, any person in any case not provided for in section 221, section 222 or section 223, or in any other law for the time being in force, omits to apprehend that person or suffers him to escape from confinement, shall be punished--

(a) if he does so intentionally, with imprisonment of cither description for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both; and

(b) if he does so negligently, with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both,

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1. Sections 225A and 225B Substituted by Act 10 of 1886, section 24(1), for section 225A which had been Inserted by Act 27 of 1870, section 9.