Delhi Prisons (Admission, Classification, Separation, Remission, Reward and Release of Prisoners) Rules, 1988

Q: What does Section 2 of Delhi Prisons (Admission, Classification, Separation, Remission, Reward and Release of Prisoners) Rules, 1988 say?

(i) Women under trial prisoners, who shall be admitted in jails whatever time presented for admission by the Police and on all days including Sunday and Jail holidays. (ii) Superintendent may permit admission of prisoners at all hours on the special written order of a Sessions Judge or District Magistrate. (iii) Male Prisoners admitted after the hours of lock-up shall be kept in a Ward/Barrack earmarked for the purpose. However, the female prisoner be confined in the female Ward.

Q: What does Section 6 of Delhi Prisons (Admission, Classification, Separation, Remission, Reward and Release of Prisoners) Rules, 1988 say?

Note 1: Note 2: (a) Name of the prisoner; (b) His parentage; (c) Residential address; (d) Particulars of the case namely FIR. No/D.D. No. Section & the Prisoner is remanded to custody and Police Station. (e) The period of custody or date of producing before the Court. The Warrant should also be sealed and signed by the presiding officer of the Court. If the prisoner is injured, the custody warrant should be accompanied by a medico-legal certificate. In case of prisoner sent to jail under Chapter

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            "title": "9. Certain days to count as days of Sentence Proviso.",
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            "content": "Provided that if, in the case of any prisoner, two or more sentences are to be undergone otherwise than concurrently, no day shall be counted as a day of imprisonment in respect of more than one such sentence, and that a sentence of imprisonment for one day or for twenty-four-hours shall be deemed to expire on morning of the day following that on which the sentence was passed.",
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            "content": "(a) a prisoner who is released on bail on the day on which the sentence of imprisonment is passed shall not be deemed to have undergone any part of his sentence until he is again placed in confinement; and that\n(b) this rule shall not be deemed to apply to persons undergoing imprisonment under the provisions of section 122 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973.\nNote: A Prisoner released on bail on a day subsequent to that on which he was committed to jail but who is again recommitted to undergo sentence in the same case, shall be entitled to count every day of admission and every day of release as days of imprisonment in respect of such sentence.\nNote:",
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            "title": "11. Date of release when a period has been excluded from sentence.",
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            "number": "12",
            "title": "12. Operation of a second sentence when a first sentence is set-aside.",
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            "title": "18. Procedure when a prisoner with imprisonment in lieu of fine is transferred.",
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            "title": "20. Imprisonment in view of fine to succeed substantive sentences.",
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            "title": "21. Imprisonment under Section 106, or 118, Criminal Procedure Code in addition to a substantive sentence.",
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            "title": "24. Juvenile prisoner.",
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            "content": "(a) 24. Prisoner under the age of 16 year. - If a prisoner appears to be less than 16 years of age at the time of his admission in the jail, the Superintendent shall have the prisoner immediately examined medically and if the prisoner's age is confirmed to be less then 16 years, then prisoner's case will be referred to the concerned trial Court for his detention in a juvenile home.",
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            "title": "24. Prisoner under the age of 16 year.",
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            "title": "28. Prisoners to wash themselves and their clothing.",
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            "number": "29",
            "title": "29. Classes arced Serial numbers, to be quoted in communications.",
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            "title": "30. State of education on admission.",
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            "content": "(a) able to read and write,\n(b) able to read only; or\n(c) illiterate.",
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            "number": "41",
            "title": "41. Diet.",
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            "number": "42",
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            "number": "44",
            "title": "44. Facilities for reading.",
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            "number": "45",
            "title": "45. Light.",
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            "number": "46",
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            "number": "47",
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            "number": "48",
            "title": "48. Use of Handcuffs and fetters.",
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            "number": "49",
            "title": "49. Punishment.",
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            "title": "50. Discipline.",
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            "number": "51",
            "title": "51. Transfer.",
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            "content": "(B) Rules for the Treatment of Better Class Under trial Prisoners\n52.\nIII. Separation of Prisoners\nIII. Separation of Prisoners",
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            "number": "53",
            "title": "53. Unconvicted Criminal Prisoners.",
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            "number": "54",
            "title": "54. Habitual Prisoners.",
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            "content": "55.\n56.",
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            "number": "57",
            "title": "57. Civil Prisoners.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "58",
            "title": "58. Confessing Under trial Prisoners.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "59",
            "title": "59. Conviction with death Sentence.",
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            "number": "60",
            "title": "60. Exception to the rule regarding separation.",
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            "content": "61.",
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            "number": "62",
            "title": "62. Convicts to be separated.",
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            "number": "63",
            "title": "63. Occupation of vacant Cells.",
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            "number": "64",
            "title": "64. Separation of Casuals.",
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            "number": "65",
            "title": "65. Procedure when separation by day is not feasible.",
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            "content": "Note:",
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            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "66",
            "title": "66. Remissions as Concession and not right.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "67",
            "title": "67. Kinds of remission.",
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            "content": "(a) Ordinary remission ;\n(b) Annual Good Conduct Remission ;\n(c) Special remission ; and\n(d) State remission.",
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            "number": "68",
            "title": "68. Authority to grant ordinary remission.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "69",
            "title": "69. Prisoners eligible for ordinary remission.",
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            "content": "70.",
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            "number": "71",
            "title": "71. Non-eligibility for ordinary remission.",
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            "content": "(a) if he is undergoing a sentence of imprisonment in lieu of fine ;\n(b) if term of sentence or the aggregate of sentences as passed against him is reduced on appeal or otherwise to a period of less than three months;\n(c) in whose case, the Administrator has ordered that remission should not be granted;\n(d) who, due to self-inflicted injuries, is detained in hospital as indoor patient, or who has resorted to hunger-strike or work-strike (for such periods as may be decided by the Superintendent);\n(e) during out-periods which are not reckoned as part of sentence (being periods during bail, escabc, extradition and other periods which are treated as out-periods and not recokoned as part of sentence under specific orders of the Administrator issued in that behalf).",
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            "number": "72",
            "title": "72. Scale of award of remission.",
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            "content": "(a) two days per month for thoroughly good conduct and scrupulous attention to all prison regulations, and\n(b) two days per month for industry and the due performance of the daily ask imposed.,",
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            "number": "73",
            "title": "73. Scale of award of remission to prisoner which is unable to labour through causes beyond his control.",
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            "content": "Provided that if his absence from work is due to his own misconduct in jail, no remission under Clause (b) shall be awarded for the period of absence.\nProvided also that if he is in hospital or on an invalid gang no remission under clause (b) shall be granted unless the Medical Officer certifies that the prisoner's absence from labour is due to causes beyond his control, and is in no way caused by any action of the prisoner himself taken with a view to escape work or to get into or to remain in hospital.",
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            "number": "74",
            "title": "74. Remission awarded to Convict Officer.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "75",
            "title": "75. Application of Remission System.",
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            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "76",
            "title": "76. Sundays and holiday.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "77",
            "title": "77. Remission for good conduct.",
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            "content": "78.",
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            "number": "79",
            "title": "79. No remission for the month in which released.",
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            "content": "80.\n(a) assisting in detecting or preventing breaches of prison discipline or regulation;\n(b) success in teaching handicrafts;\n(c) special excellence in, or greatly increased outturn of work of good quality;\n(d) protecting an officer of the prison from attacks ;\n(e) assisting an officer of the prison in the case of outbreak of fire or similar emergency ;\n(f) economy in wearing clothes ;\n(g) donating blood to the Blood Bank, provided that the scale of special remission for this service shall be 15 days for each occasion on which blood is donated subject to the limit laid down in sub-para (2) below. The remission on account of blood donation shall not be granted more than twice in one convict year and shall be apart from other remissions.\n(a) by the Superintendent to a period not exceeding thirty days in one year;\n(b) by the Deputy Inspector General of Prison to a period not exceeding 45 days in one year ;\n(c) by the Inspector-General or the Administrator for a period not exceeding sixty days in one year.",
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            "number": "81",
            "title": "81. Total remission not to exceed one-fourth part of sentence.",
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        {
            "number": "82",
            "title": "82. Remission in calculating date of release.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 67
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        {
            "number": "83",
            "title": "83. Record of prisoner transferred.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 68
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        {
            "number": "84",
            "title": "84. Remission sheet.",
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            "content": "V. Rewards\nV. Rewards",
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            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "85",
            "title": "85. Remission as reward.",
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            "content": "Note:\n(b) A convict, if passed for medium or light labour, is to be rewarded for the extra work done over and above the tasks/aid-down for these classes of labour, respectively, at the rate of one days' special remission for every additional day's work reckoned on the labour task of his class of Labour.\n(c) No convict passed for medium or light labour shall be permitted to do extra work without the sanction of the Medical Officer recorded in his history ticket or to exceed in the total day's work a hard labour task in the case of a medium labour man, or a medium labour task in the case of a light labour man,",
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            "number": "86",
            "title": "86. Conditions of the award of gratuities for industry.",
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            "content": "(a) the grant made for the purpose, by the Inspector-General, in respect of the jail, and\n(b) the maximum monthly limit in respect of individual prisoners prescribed by the Inspector-General, grant to any convict a money in respect of extra quantity or superior quality of any work done by such convict, or of his being employed to teach any handicrafts.",
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            "number": "87",
            "title": "87. Money grant to indigent prisoners on release limit of the award.",
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            "footnote": "",
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        {
            "number": "88",
            "title": "88. Conditions of the grant to indigent prisoners.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the grant made for this purpose, by the Inspector-General in respect of the jail, and\n(b) the maximum amount which may be granted to any convict, prescribed by the Inspector-General, grant to any convict who had undergone a sentence of imprisonment for one year or more, upon his release, such sum of money as he may think necessary, for the purpose of enabling the convict to maintain himself untill he can secure honest employment:\nProvided that no such grant shall be made to any prisoner who, at the time of his release, is in possession of a sum of five rupees or more.\n(c) In addition to the ordinary and special remissions the I.G.(P) may on the recommendations of the Superintendent grant a cash reward not exceeding Rs. 500 to a convict or even an under trial prisoner for outstanding contribution in terms of providing useful information or physical aid to the jail authorities in an emergency.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "89",
            "title": "89. The privilege of permitting the use of books by Prisoners.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Provided that the Superintendent sanctions the indulgence and in each case, approves of the book.\nVI. Release\nVI. Release\n90.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 74
        },
        {
            "number": "91",
            "title": "91. Release of convicts after 14 years of imprisonment.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 75
        },
        {
            "number": "92",
            "title": "92. Procedure when sentence expires.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 76
        },
        {
            "number": "93",
            "title": "93. Warrant of release of a prisoner transferred.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 77
        },
        {
            "number": "94",
            "title": "94. Identification of prisoners on release.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 78
        },
        {
            "number": "95",
            "title": "95. Time of release of prisoners.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 79
        },
        {
            "number": "96",
            "title": "96. Prisoner to produce his jail outfit on release.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 80
        },
        {
            "number": "97",
            "title": "97. When the date of release falls on jail holiday.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Provided that if for any reason a civil prisoner is entitled to be released on a jail holiday he shall be released on that day.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 81
        },
        {
            "number": "98",
            "title": "98. Release on the authority of a telegram.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 82
        },
        {
            "number": "99",
            "title": "99. Prisoners on release to be furnished with certificate.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 83
        },
        {
            "number": "100",
            "title": "100. Return of a prisoner's property on release.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Provided that no prisoner shall be entitled to receive any compensation, other than the sale proceeds (if any) destroyed or sold in accordance with the provisions of existing rules.\nNote:",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 84
        },
        {
            "number": "101",
            "title": "101. Conditions under which clothing may be supplied to a released prisoner.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 85
        },
        {
            "number": "102",
            "title": "102. Subsistence allowance, railway pass and conveyance allowance.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(i) a free railway pass of the second class to the station nearest to his home; and\n(ii) conveyance allowance equivalent to the actual bus fare ;",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 86
        },
        {
            "number": "103",
            "title": "103. Meal to prisoners on release.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 87
        },
        {
            "number": "104",
            "title": "104. Release of female prisoners.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 88
        },
        {
            "number": "105",
            "title": "105. Return of warrant Action when there are two or more warrants.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 89
        },
        {
            "number": "106",
            "title": "106. Return of warrantAction where an accused has been admitted to bail.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(1) In every case in which a sentence is reversed on appeal, the Appellate Court shall return the original warrant with a copy of its order to the Court by which the accused was admitted to discharge him.\n(2) In every case in which a sentence is modified on appeal, the Appellate Court prepares a fresh warrant (in the form prescribed in the rule following this rule) and forwards the same, with the original warrant and with a copy of its order, to the Court by which the accused was admitted to bail, with directions to take measures to secure his surrender and commitment to jail on the modified warrant, and\n(3) In every case in which a sentence is confirmed on appeal, the Appellate Court returns the Original warrant with a copy of its order to the Court by which the accused was admitted to bail, with directions to take measures, if given, on surrender and commitment to jail on the original warrant.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 90
        },
        {
            "number": "107",
            "title": "107. Action where an accused surrenders to his bail.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 91
        },
        {
            "number": "108",
            "title": "108. Case of prisoner ill at the time of release.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 92
        },
        {
            "number": "109",
            "title": "109. Release of prisoners suffering from disease.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the disease is likely to prove fatal if the prisoner remains in prison ;\n(b) there is reasonable chance of recovery if the prisoner be released ;\n(c) the prisoner has not done any wilful act, since he has been in prison, to produce or aggravate his disease ;\n(d) the medical officer recommends the release and certifies that the conditions (a), (b) and (c) above, have been complied with ; and\n(e) the prisoner has not more than six months to remain in prison before the expiry of his sentence.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 93
        }
    ],
    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "dl084",
        "Act Number": "Published vide in Delhi Gazette, Extraordinary Part 4, No. 76, dated 18th April, 1988 vide Notification No F-9(75)/87-H(G)/(4), in exercise of the powers conferred under Clause (17), (27) & (28) of Section 59 of the Prisons Act, 1894 (9 of 1894) by the Administrator of the Union Territory of Delhi.",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "1988",
        "Short Title": "Delhi Prisons (Admission, Classification, Separation, Remission, Reward and Release of Prisoners) Rules, 1988",
        "Type": "UNION_TERRITORY",
        "Location": "Delhi"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:22"
}

Delhi Prisons (Admission, Classification, Separation, Remission, Reward and Release of Prisoners) Rules, 1988

Sections

1. Short title and commencement.

2. No prisoner to be admitted at night.

3. No person to be admitted without a proper WarrantProcedure on refusal.

5. Procedure if a Warrant is illegal or irregular.

6. Examination of Warrants and Notes of explanation.

7. Copy of Wan-ant returned for correction to be kept.

8. Date of release and Responsibility for correctness.

9. Certain days to count as days of Sentence Proviso.

10. Periods to be excluded from sentence.

11. Date of release when a period has been excluded from sentence.

12. Operation of a second sentence when a first sentence is set-aside.

13. Date from which a sentence finally passed shall Count.

14. Date of release when two or more sentences run consecutively.

15. Calculation of date of release when a fine is partially paid.

16. Calculation of remission on payment of fine.

17. Disposal of notice of payment of fine.

18. Procedure when a prisoner with imprisonment in lieu of fine is transferred.

19. The payment of fine at the Jail.

20. Imprisonment in view of fine to succeed substantive sentences.

21. Imprisonment under Section 106, or 118, Criminal Procedure Code in addition to a substantive sentence.

22. Management, and Custody of Warrant.

23. Record for the purpose of identification.

24. Juvenile prisoner.

24. Prisoner under the age of 16 year.

25. Dangerous Prisoner.

26. The Search of prisoners on admission.

27. Quarantine on admission to jail.

28. Prisoners to wash themselves and their clothing.

29. Classes arced Serial numbers, to be quoted in communications.

30. State of education on admission.

31. How habituals are to foe distinguished.

32. Abstract of rules to be read and hung up in a conspicuous place.

33. Procedure on completion of entries in registers.

41. Diet.

42. Clothing.

43. Prison Task.

44. Facilities for reading.

45. Light.

46. Letters and interview.

47. Menial duties.

48. Use of Handcuffs and fetters.

49. Punishment.

50. Discipline.

51. Transfer.

53. Unconvicted Criminal Prisoners.

54. Habitual Prisoners.

57. Civil Prisoners.

58. Confessing Under trial Prisoners.

59. Conviction with death Sentence.

60. Exception to the rule regarding separation.

62. Convicts to be separated.

63. Occupation of vacant Cells.

64. Separation of Casuals.

65. Procedure when separation by day is not feasible.

66. Remissions as Concession and not right.

67. Kinds of remission.

68. Authority to grant ordinary remission.

69. Prisoners eligible for ordinary remission.

71. Non-eligibility for ordinary remission.

72. Scale of award of remission.

73. Scale of award of remission to prisoner which is unable to labour through causes beyond his control.

74. Remission awarded to Convict Officer.

75. Application of Remission System.

76. Sundays and holiday.

77. Remission for good conduct.

79. No remission for the month in which released.

81. Total remission not to exceed one-fourth part of sentence.

82. Remission in calculating date of release.

83. Record of prisoner transferred.

84. Remission sheet.

85. Remission as reward.

86. Conditions of the award of gratuities for industry.

87. Money grant to indigent prisoners on release limit of the award.

88. Conditions of the grant to indigent prisoners.

89. The privilege of permitting the use of books by Prisoners.

91. Release of convicts after 14 years of imprisonment.

92. Procedure when sentence expires.

93. Warrant of release of a prisoner transferred.

3. No person to be admitted without a proper WarrantProcedure on refusal.

9. Certain days to count as days of Sentence Proviso.

105. Return of warrant Action when there are two or more warrants.

106. Return of warrantAction where an accused has been admitted to bail.