Delhi Prisons (Prisoners Property, History Ticket, Civil Prisoners, Unconvicted prisoners, Judicial Solitary confinement, Cells and Treatment Therein) Rules, 1988.

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    "id": 27051,
    "slug": "delhi-prisons-prisoners-property-history-ticket-civil-prisoners-unconvicted-prisoners-judicial-solitary-confinement-cells-and-treatment-therein-rules-1988",
    "title": "Delhi Prisons (Prisoners Property, History Ticket, Civil Prisoners, Unconvicted prisoners, Judicial Solitary confinement, Cells and Treatment Therein) Rules, 1988.",
    "short_title": "Delhi Prisons (Prisoners Property, History Ticket, Civil Prisoners, Unconvicted prisoners, Judicial Solitary confinement, Cells and Treatment Therein) Rules, 1988.",
    "act_number": "Published vide in Delhi Gazette, Extra ordinary Pa",
    "act_year": 1988,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "law_status": "unknown",
    "enactment_date": null,
    "description": "Delhi Prisons (Prisoners Property, History Ticket, Civil Prisoners, Unconvicted prisoners, Judicial Solitary confinement, Cells and Treatment Therein) Rules, 1988.",
    "preamble": "",
    "section_label": "Section",
    "sections": [
        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Short title and commencement.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "I. Prisoners' Property\nI. Prisoners' Property",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 0
        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. List of property to be attached to warrant.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 1
        },
        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. List of property to read over. Every entry to be attested.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Note:",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 2
        },
        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Property to be registered when exception may be mad.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 3
        },
        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Property received after admission to be entered in list.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 4
        },
        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Treatment of the property of prisoners.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 5
        },
        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Clothing to be attached to bundles and fabelled.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 6
        },
        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Disposal of money, the property of prisoners.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 7
        },
        {
            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Disposal of property on transfer of a prisoners.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 8
        },
        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Disposal of clothing of certain prisoner on transfer.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 9
        },
        {
            "number": "11",
            "title": "11. Property tendered for certain prisoners not to be received.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 10
        },
        {
            "number": "12",
            "title": "12. Property may be made over to a relative or friend.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Provided that the Superintendent may withhold and retain so much of the money or other property of such prisoner as he may think necessary for the purpose of providing such prisoner with sufficient clothes and money, upon his release.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 11
        },
        {
            "number": "13",
            "title": "13. Disposal of forbidden articles found on prisoners.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Provided that the Superintendent may award any sum, not exceeding one-half of any money or of the sale-proceeds of any property so confiscated, to any person concerned in the finding or discovery thereon,",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 12
        },
        {
            "number": "14",
            "title": "14. Disposal of the property of an escaped prisoner.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 13
        },
        {
            "number": "15",
            "title": "15. Property of deceased prisoner.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Note:",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 14
        },
        {
            "number": "16",
            "title": "16. Procedure when forwarding unclaimed property.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "II. History Tickets\nII. History Tickets",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 15
        },
        {
            "number": "17",
            "title": "17. History ticket—the preparation and maintenance.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the name, date of admission, prison number and other particulars necessary for the identification of the prisoner; offence committed, police station, name of the trial court, next date for production of the prisoner in the court etc.\n(b) a brief entry of every order passed and direction given relating to, and punishment inflicted on, the prisoner ; and ,\n(c) A brief record of every other occurrence of any importance affecting the prisoner, which takes place while he remains in confinement.\n(a) the nature of the offence of which he had been convicted and the provision of the law applicable thereto ; and\n(b) the date, nature and extent of the sentence passed.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 16
        },
        {
            "number": "18",
            "title": "18. Entries by the Medical Officer in history-tickets.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the prisoner's weight on admission ;\n(b) his state of health ;\n(c) the class of labour for which he is fit, if sentenced to labour, and\n(d) nature of injury on the person of the, prisoner found to be injured at the time of admission with M.L.C.\n(e) whether he is a drug addict.\n(a) admission to and discharge from hospital on every occasion, with the disease for which admitted, and\n(b) admission to sand discharged from the convalescent gang.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 17
        },
        {
            "number": "19",
            "title": "19. Particulars to be entered and the officer to enter them.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the date of admission into jail ;\n(b) the number and name of every article' of clothing and equipment, issued on admission and subsequently ;\n(c) the particular work and task in weight, number or measurement, to which the prisoner is put ;\n(d) every change of work or task on other than medical grounds;\n(e) any complaint made by the prisoner of sickness or report of his sickness ;\n(f) the action taken on any direction or recommendation of the Medical Officer;\n(g) application for a copy of judgment, if the prisoner desires to appeal;\n(h) receipt of the copy of judgment;\n(i) substance of the order of the appellate court;\n(j) despatch of appeal;\n(k) the fact of an appeal not having been made before the expiration of the term allowed for appealing ;\n(l) the amount of remission awarded monthly ;\n(m) the total remission in day earned upto the end of each month ;\n(n) every prison offence alleged to have been committed ;\n(o) every interview allowed and the receipt or despatch of private letters;\n(p) despatch to a Court, or transfer, discharge, escape or death ;\n(q) any recommendation of the Factory Manager or the Deputy Superintendent;\n(r) action taken on any order entered by the Superintendent;\n(s) the monthly weightants\n(t) the number of the cell in which placed on account of warrant of confinement;\n(u) the total confinement undergone on warrant on each occasion of removal from cell after such confinement;\n(v) particulars of the duties assigned to convict-officers.\nNote:",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 18
        },
        {
            "number": "20",
            "title": "20. Entries to be made by the Superintendent.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) any special order he may have to give relating to any prisoner e.g. the imposition or removal of fetters, permission to hold an interview or write a letter, separation by night etc.;\n(b) the award of every punishment given after giving due hearing to the prisoner;\n(c) sanction for employment on extramural work ;\n(d) promotion to the grade of convict-watchman, convict overseer or convict warder; and\n(e) the award of special remission.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 19
        },
        {
            "number": "21",
            "title": "21. Custody and Management of History-Ticket.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Note:",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 20
        },
        {
            "number": "22",
            "title": "22. Retention of history-ticket after release or death.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) in the event of his escape or release for one year; and\n(b) in the event of his death—for two years, after such event occurs.\n(c) in the event of release on bail for a year after the result of appeal is known.\nIII. Civil Prisoners\nIII. Civil Prisoners",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 21
        },
        {
            "number": "23",
            "title": "23. Power of Collector.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 22
        },
        {
            "number": "24",
            "title": "24. Civil prisoners to be confined in the separate part of jail.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 23
        },
        {
            "number": "25",
            "title": "25. Visitors.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 24
        },
        {
            "number": "26",
            "title": "26. Maintenance of certain prisoners from private sources.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 25
        },
        {
            "number": "27",
            "title": "27. Diet of certain civil prisoners and permission to cook.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 26
        },
        {
            "number": "28",
            "title": "28. Subsistance allowance.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 27
        },
        {
            "number": "29",
            "title": "29. Supply of food to civil prisoners when subsistance allowance is provided.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 28
        },
        {
            "number": "30",
            "title": "30. Articles to be delivered to the Dy. Supdt. and to be examined.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 29
        },
        {
            "number": "31",
            "title": "31. Articles through whom purchase.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 30
        },
        {
            "number": "32",
            "title": "32. Monthly allowance fixed by the Court to whom to be paid.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Note 1:\nNote 2:",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 31
        },
        {
            "number": "33",
            "title": "33. Supply of furniture and appliances.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 32
        },
        {
            "number": "34",
            "title": "34. Extradict for civil prisoners how to be charged.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 33
        },
        {
            "number": "35",
            "title": "35. Return of property to decree-holder.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 34
        },
        {
            "number": "36",
            "title": "36. The question of labour and subject to prison discipline.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "IV. Un-Convicted Criminal Prisoners\nIV. Un-Convicted Criminal Prisoners",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 35
        },
        {
            "number": "37",
            "title": "37. Maintenance from private sources.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 36
        },
        {
            "number": "38",
            "title": "38. Restriction on the transfer of food and clothing.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 37
        },
        {
            "number": "39",
            "title": "39. Supply of clothing and bedding.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 38
        },
        {
            "number": "40",
            "title": "40. Supply of food to unconvicted criminal prisoners.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) be delivered to the Deputy Superintendent or other officer appointed by the Superintendent for that purpose, and\n(b) be examined, before it is made over to such prisoner, either by the Medical Officer or para-medical staff authorised by him to do so.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 39
        },
        {
            "number": "41",
            "title": "41. Certain articles not to be given without permission.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 40
        },
        {
            "number": "42",
            "title": "42. Purchase of articles.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 41
        },
        {
            "number": "43",
            "title": "43. Privilege of purchasing food may be withheld.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 42
        },
        {
            "number": "44",
            "title": "44. Supply of jail diet to unconvicted prisoners and conditions for.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 43
        },
        {
            "number": "45",
            "title": "45. Unconvicted prisoners may follow a trade and receive the earnings.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 44
        },
        {
            "number": "46",
            "title": "46. Duty of Officers to report previous conviction.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 45
        },
        {
            "number": "47",
            "title": "47. Unconvicted prisoner may be kept separate.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 46
        },
        {
            "number": "48",
            "title": "48. Unconvicted prisoners not to alter their appearance.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 47
        },
        {
            "number": "49",
            "title": "49. Conveyance of unconvicted prisoners to court.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 48
        },
        {
            "number": "50",
            "title": "50. Notice of discharge or release on bail.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 49
        },
        {
            "number": "51",
            "title": "51. Weight of unconvicted prisoners on release.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 50
        },
        {
            "number": "52",
            "title": "52. Monthly list to be sent to the District Magistrate.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 51
        },
        {
            "number": "53",
            "title": "53. Serious illness of an unconvicted prisoner.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 52
        },
        {
            "number": "54",
            "title": "54. Notice of death be sent to court.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 53
        },
        {
            "number": "55",
            "title": "55. Unconvicted prisoner to remain neat and clean.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "V. Judicial Solitary Confinement\nV. Judicial Solitary Confinement",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 54
        },
        {
            "number": "56",
            "title": "56. Condition to be complied with in executing sentences of solitary confinement.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) When a prisoner is placed in a cell. the number of the cell should be given in the history-ticket against the entry.\n(b) The total confinement undergone on warrant should be shown in the history-ticket at a separate entry on each occasion the prisoner is removed from such confinement.\n(c) On the discharge of prisoner from jail, an entry should be made in Register No. 2 showing the total amount of solitary confinement undergone as per warrant.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 55
        },
        {
            "number": "57",
            "title": "57. Solitary confinement when to be undergone.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 56
        },
        {
            "number": "58",
            "title": "58. Endorsement on warrant of solitary confinement undergone.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "IV. Cells and Treatment therein\nIV. Cells and Treatment therein",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 57
        },
        {
            "number": "59",
            "title": "59. Construction of cell.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 58
        },
        {
            "number": "60",
            "title": "60. The purpose for which cells may be used.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) carrying out sentence of solitary confinement ordered on a warrant.\n(b) the medical observation of those suspected of being insane, or the accommodation of noisy, dangerous or other lunatics whom it is advisable to keep apart;\n(c) the separation of prisoners;\n(d) the medical observation and separation of prisoners suspected of malingering, causing sickness or injury to themselves by the use of deleterious substances, or who are suffering or suspected to be suffering from any contagious or infectious disease;\n(e) the confinement of prisoners sentenced to death;\n(f) quarantine ; and\n(g) keeping different category of prisoners apart from each other.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 59
        },
        {
            "number": "61",
            "title": "61. An officer to be within hearing of prisoners in cell.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 60
        },
        {
            "number": "62",
            "title": "62. No prisoner to be placed in a cell without a written order.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 61
        },
        {
            "number": "63",
            "title": "63. Ticket to be posted on door of occupied cell.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 62
        },
        {
            "number": "64",
            "title": "64. The search of prisoner in cell.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 63
        },
        {
            "number": "65",
            "title": "65. Precautions to be taken with prisoners in cells at night.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 64
        },
        {
            "number": "66",
            "title": "66. Only one occupant in each cell—Exception for.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 65
        },
        {
            "number": "67",
            "title": "67. Visits to prisoners in Cell.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 66
        },
        {
            "number": "68",
            "title": "68. Bedding of prisoners in cells to be kept clean.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 67
        }
    ],
    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "dl087",
        "Act Number": "Published vide in Delhi Gazette, Extra ordinary Part 4 No. 76, dated 18th April, 1988 vide notification No. F. 9 (75)/87-Home (General)/7), in exercise of the powers conferred under Clause (8), (11), (19), and (27) and 28 of Section 59 read with section 51 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 (Prisoners Property, History Ticket, Civil Prisoners, Unconvicted prisoners, Judicial Solitary confinement, Cells and Treatment Therein) Rules, 1988.",
        "Type": "UNION_TERRITORY",
        "Location": "Delhi"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:22"
}