Volume 88, Issue 127
Royal Gazette
21 November 2514
If [either] offence under this section is committed whilst having or by using a firearm or explosive, the offender shall be punished one-half more heavily than the punishment prescribed in [either of] the two previous paragraphs.
Section191.Whoever frees from detention by any means a person detained by virtue of the power of a court, public prosecutor, inquiry official, or officer empowered to investigate a criminal case, shall be punished with imprisonment not over five years, or a fine not over ten thousand baht, or both the imprisonment and the fine.
If the person freed from detention has been adjudged by any particular court to a punishment of death, life imprisonment, or imprisonment of fifteen years or more, or the number [of the persons freed] is three or more, the offender shall be punished with imprisonment from six months to seven years and a fine from one thousand baht to fourteen thousand baht.
If [either] offences under this section is committed by exercising forcible violence, or by threatening to exercise forcible violence, or whilst having or by using a firearm or explosive, the offender shall be punished one-half more heavily than the punishment prescribed by the law in [either of] the two previous paragraphs.
Article5.The stipulations of section 218 of the Penal Code shall be repealed and replaced by the following stipulations:
