Cap. 9 Art. 117Where failure of duty consists in releasing a person charged orindischarging a defendant or person accused.

Where the crime referred to in article 115(c) consists in the release of a person charged with an offence, or in the discharge of a defendant or person accused, the punishment shall be as follows:

(a) where the charge, complaint, or indictment be in respect of a crime liable to a punishment higher than that of imprisonment for a term of two years, the punishment shall be imprisonment for a term from three years to nine years;

(b) where it be in respect of an offence liable to a punishment not higher than that of imprisonment for a term of two years, but not falling in the class of contraventions, the punishment shall be imprisonment for a term from eighteen months to five years;

(c) where it be in respect of a contravention, the punishment shall be imprisonment for a term from nine months to two years.