Indian Penal Code, 1860
220.
Commitment for trial or confinement by person having authority who knows that
he is acting contrary to law
Whoever, being in any
office which gives him legal authority to commit persons for trial or to
commitment, or to keep persons in confinement, corruptly or maliciously commits
any person for trial or to confinement, or keeps any person in confinement, in
the exercise of that authority knowing that in so doing he is acting contrary
to law, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term
which may extend to seven years, or with fine, or with both.