222. Intentional omission to apprehend on part of public servant bound to apprehend person under sentence or lawfully committed

Whoever, being a public servant, legally bound as such public servant, to apprehend or to keep in confinement, any person under sentence of a Court of Justice for any offence or lawfully committed to custody, intentionally omits to apprehend such person, or intentionally suffers such person to escape, or intentionally aids such person in escaping or attempting to escape from such confinement, shall be punished as follows -

with imprisonment for a term not exceeding 15 years, with or without fine, if the person in confinement, or who ought to have been apprehended, is under sentence of death;

with imprisonment for a term not exceeding 7 years, with or without fine, if the person in confinement, or who ought to have been apprehended, is subject by a sentence of a Court of Justice, or by virtue of a commutation of such sentence, to imprisonment for a term of 10 years or more; or

with imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 years, fine or both, if the person in confinement, or who ought to have been apprehended, is subject by a sentence of a Court of Justice, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding to 10 years, or if the person was lawfully committed to custody.