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Book 4 Chapter IX Paragraph 22

Wikisource / R. Shamasastry (1915) · Book 4 - The Removal of Thorns / Chapter IX · Verse Paragraph 22

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(An officer) who causes a prisoner to escape from a lock-up without breaking it open, shall be punished with the middlemost amercement. (An officer) who causes a prisoner to escape from a lock-up after breaking it open, shall be condemned to death. When he lets out a prisoner from the jail, he shall be put to death and his property confiscated.