Delhi Prison Act, 2000

Q: What does Section 2 of Delhi Prison Act, 2000 say?

(a) "civil prisoner" means any prisoner who is not a criminal prisoner; (b) "competent authority" means any officer having jurisdiction and due legal authority to deal with a particular matter in question; (c) "convicted criminal prisoner" means any criminal prisoner under sentence of a court or court martial, and includes a person detained in prison under the provisions of Chapter VII of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974); (d) "criminal prisoner" means any prisoner duly committed

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4. Power of State Government to Appoint Inspector General and other Officers and staff.

Section 4

5. Inspector General.

Section 5

6. Officers of Prisons.

Section 6

7. Temporary Accommodation for Prisoners.

Section 7

8. Control and duties of officers of prisons.

Section 8

9. Officers not to have business dealing with prisoners and others.

Section 9

10. Officers not to be interested in prison contracts.

Section 10

11. Superintendent and his residence in prisons.

Section 11

12. Records to be kept by Superintendent.

Section 12

13. Duties of Medical Officer.

Section 13

14. Medical Officer to report in certain cases.

Section 14

15. Report on death of prisoner.

Section 15

16. Deputy Superintendent to reside in prison.

Section 16

17. Deputy Superintendent to give notice of death of prisoners.

Section 17

18. Responsibility of Deputy Superintendent.

Section 18

19. Deputy Superintendent to he present at night.

Section 19

20. Power of Assistant Superintendent.

Section 20

21. Duties of gatekeeper.

Section 21

22. Subordinate officer not to be absent without leave.

Section 22

23. Utilisation of the services of prisoners.

Section 23

24. Prisoners to be examined on admission.

Section 24

25. Effects of prisoners.

Section 25

26. Removal and discharge of prisoners.

Section 26

27. Responsibility of Superintend.

Section 27

28. Separation of prisoners.

Section 28

29. Association and segregation of prisoners.

Section 29

30. Prisoners under sentence of death.

Section 30

31. Maintenance of certain prisoners from private sources.

Section 31

32. Restriction on transfer of. food and clothing between certain prisoners.

Section 32

33. Supply of clothing and bedding to civil prisoners.

Section 33

34. Employment of civil prisoners.

Section 34

35. Employment of criminal prisoners.

Section 35

36. Employment of criminal prisoners sentenced to simple imprisonment.

Section 36

37. Sick prisoners.

Section 37

38. Record of directions of Medical Officer.

Section 38

39. Hospital.

Section 39

40. Interviews.

Section 40

41. Search of visitor.

Section 41

42. Letters.

Section 42

43. Penalty for introduction or removal of, into or from prison and communication with prisoners.

Section 43

44. Power to arrest for offence under Section 43.

Section 43

45. Publication of penalties.

Section 45

46. Prison offences.

Section 46

47. Punishment of such prison offence.

Section 47

48. Limitation to Award of punishment under Section 47.

Section 47

49. Punishment to be in accordance with foregoing sections.

Section 49

50. Entries in punishment book.

Section 50

51. Procedure on committal of in-house offence.

Section 51

52. Offences by prison subordinate.

Section 52

53. Procedure for conducting enquiries for the award of punishment.

Section 53

54. Punishment for not fulfilling conditions subject to which remission, etc. was given.

Section 54

55. Liability to provide safe custody and security of prisoners.

Section 55

56. Prisoners exempted from imposition of handcuffs and fetters.

Section 56

57. Redressal or grievances of prisoner.

Section 57

58. Prohibition of strikes, etc..

Section 58

59. Extramural custody, control and employment of prisoners.

Section 59

60. Review of cases of criminal prisoners.

Section 60

61. Use of minimum force.

Section 61

62. Legal aid.

Section 62

63. Rehabilitation of prisoners.

Section 63

64. Persons of unsound mind.

Section 64

65. Protective custody.

Section 65

66. Accounts and audit.

Section 66

67. Training of prison official.

Section 67

68. Delegation of power.

Section 68

69. Exercise of powers of Superintendent and Medical Office.

Section 69

70. Protection of action taken in good faith.

Section 70

71. Powers of Government to make rule.

Section 71

72. Exhibition of copies of Rules.

Section 72

73. Repeal and savings.

Section 73

74. Power to remove difficulties.

Section 74

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            "number": "39",
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            "number": "42",
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            "title": "43. Penalty for introduction or removal of, into or from prison and communication with prisoners.",
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            "number": "45",
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            "number": "46",
            "title": "46. Prison offences.",
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            "content": "Provided that this shall not be applicable to Male/Female prisoners on religious grounds and all possible facilities shall be extended to such prisoners in performance of their religious obligations.",
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            "content": "(a) a formal warning, which shall be personally addressed to the prisoner by the Superintendent and recorded in the punishment book;\n(b) forfeiture of remission up to a period of thirty days at anyone time or, with the approval of the Inspector General, remove a prisoner from the remission system up to a period of six months;\nProvided that the Inspector General shall have power to forfeit all earned remissions, other than remissions given by the Government, or to remove a prisoner from the remission system for the entire period of his imprisonment;\n(c) stoppage of recreational facilities up to a period of one month or canteen facilities up to a period of three months or stoppage of interviews for a period of one month;\n(d) in case of breaches and violations in conditions of release on parole or furlough, not counting the said period towards imprisonment;\n(e) segregation up to a period of three months, and with the sanction of the Inspector General, up to a period of six months;\n(f) separate confinement up to a period of one month at a time, and with the sanction of the Inspector General up to a period of three months subject to such conditions as may be prescribed.\n(g) Cellular confinement for any period not exceeding fourteen days with the approval of Inspector General.\nProvided that, after each period of cellular confinement, and interval of not less duration than such period must clause before the prisoner is again sentenced to cellular confinement.\n(a) provision of letters and supply of religious and moral books as far as the rules of the prison provide;\n(b) interviews with members of family of the prisoner may be granted in accordance with rules by the Superintendent except in case of punishment under clause (c) of sub-section 1 above.",
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            "content": "Provided that where the offence committed is a cognizable offence punishable with imprisonment for a term of three years or above, he shall initiate proceedings for the offender.",
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            "content": "(a) If the prisoner is at large, he shall be arrested by any police officer without a warrant and remanded to undergo the unexpired portion of his sentence;\n(b) shall on conviction by a Court, be punishable, in addition to the sentence he is undergoing with imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both.\nChapter XII\nSafe Custody and Security of Prisoners",
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            "content": "(i) Female prisoners;\n(ii) Civil prisoners; and\n(iii) Prisoners who are aged, physically infirm or seriously ill.\nChapter XIII\nMiscellaneous",
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            "number": "63",
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            "number": "64",
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        {
            "number": "65",
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            "number": "66",
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            "content": "",
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        {
            "number": "67",
            "title": "67. Training of prison official.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "68",
            "title": "68. Delegation of power.",
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            "content": "",
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        {
            "number": "69",
            "title": "69. Exercise of powers of Superintendent and Medical Office.",
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            "content": "",
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        {
            "number": "70",
            "title": "70. Protection of action taken in good faith.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "71",
            "title": "71. Powers of Government to make rule.",
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            "content": "(i) Defining the acts which shall constitute person offences;\n(ii) Determining the classification of prison offences into serious and minor offences;\n(iii) Fixing the punishments admissible under this Act which shall he awardable for commission of prison offences or classes thereof;\n(iv) Declaring the circumstances in which acts constituting both a prison offence and an offence under the Indian Penal Code, 1860 ( 45 of 1860) may or may not be dealt with as a prison offence;\n(v) For the award of marks and the shortening of sentences;\n(vi) regulating the use of force against any prisoner or body of prisoners in the case of a riot, outbreak or attempt to escape;\n(vii) Defining the circumstances and regulating the conditions under which prisoners in danger of death may be released;\n(viii) For the classification of prisons, and description and construction of wards; cells (ix) For the regulation by numbers; length or character of sentence, or otherwise, of the prisoners to be confined in each class of prisons;\n(x) For the governance of prisons and for the appointment of officers under this Act;\n(xi) As to the food, bedding and clothing of criminal prisoners and of civil prisoners maintained otherwise than at their own cost;\n(xii) For the employment, instruction and control of convicts within or without prisons;\n(xiii) For defining articles, the introduction or removal of which into or out of prisons without due authority is prohibited;\n(xiv) For regulating the disposal of the proceeds of the employment of prisoners;\n(xv) For adopting measures to bring about co-ordination between various departments of the Government for upkeep, maintenance, welfare of the prisoners and for dealing with contingencies;\n(xvi) For the classification and the separation of prisoners;\n(xvii) For regulating the confinement of convicted criminal prisoner under Section 29;\n(xviii) For the preparation and maintenance of history tickets;\n(xix) For rewards for good conduct;\n(xx) For regulating the transfer of prisoners whose term of imprisonment is about to expire subject, however, to the consent of the Government of any other State or Union Territory to which a prisoner is to be transferred;\n(xxi)For the treatment, transfer and disposal of mentally ill criminals confined in prisons;\n(xxii) For regulating the transmission of appeals and petitions from prisoners and the communication with their friends;\n(xxiii) For the appointment and guidance of visitors of prisons;\n(xxiv) For extending any or all of the provisions of this Act and of the rules there under to subsidiary prisons or special places of confinement appointment under Section 417 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974) and to the officers employed, and the prisoners confined, therein;\n(xxv) In regard to the admission, custody, employment diet, treatment and release of I prisoners;\n(xxvi) For periodic review of cases of criminal prisoners detained in prisons for more than one year and in cases when the detention is more than half of the maximum punishment for the offence;\n(xxvii) For providing legal aid to prisoners;\n(xxviii) For recruitment, training, conduct, punishment and appeal relating to the officials of the prisons;\n(xxix) For the grant of parole, furlough and leave to prisoners; (xxx) For the temporary release, suspension and remission of sentence of prisoners; (xxxi) Generally for carrying into effect the purpose of this Act. 3. Every rule made by the Government under this Act shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made, before the House of the Legislative Assembly of Delhi while it is in session for a total period of thirty days which may be comprised in one session or in two or more successive sessions, and if, before the expiry of the session immediately following the session or the successive sessions aforesaid, the House agrees in making any modification in the rule or the House agrees that the rule should not be made, the rule shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be, so, however, that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule.\n(xxx) For the temporary release, suspension and remission of sentence of prisoners;\n(xxxi) Generally for carrying into effect the purpose of this Act.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 70
        },
        {
            "number": "72",
            "title": "72. Exhibition of copies of Rules.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 71
        },
        {
            "number": "73",
            "title": "73. Repeal and savings.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 72
        },
        {
            "number": "74",
            "title": "74. Power to remove difficulties.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Provided that no such order shall be made after the expiry of a period of three years from the date of the commencement of this Act.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 73
        }
    ],
    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "dl079",
        "Act Number": "(Delhi Act No. 2 of 2002) dl079 (14th February, 2002) No. F. 14 (28)/LA. 2000-2002/101. - The following Act of the Legislative Assembly of the National Capital Territory of Delhi received the assent of the President on 28.1.2002 and is hereby published for general information.",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "2000",
        "Short Title": "Delhi Prison Act, 2000",
        "Type": "UNION_TERRITORY",
        "Location": "Delhi"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:22"
}