Delhi Prisons (Prisoners' Welfare Fund, Appeals, Petitions, Interviews and Communications) Rules, 1988

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    "id": 27052,
    "slug": "delhi-prisons-prisoners-welfare-fund-appeals-petitions-interviews-and-communications-rules-1988",
    "title": "Delhi Prisons (Prisoners' Welfare Fund, Appeals, Petitions, Interviews and Communications) Rules, 1988",
    "short_title": "Delhi Prisons (Prisoners' Welfare Fund, Appeals, Petitions, Interviews and Communications) 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' Welfare Fund, Appeals, Petitions, Interviews and Communications) Rules, 1988",
    "preamble": "",
    "section_label": "Section",
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        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Short title and commencement.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "I. Prisoners' Welfare Fund\nI. Prisoners' Welfare Fund",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 0
        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Name of the fund.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 1
        },
        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Object of the fund.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(i) Aid to prisoners in the various items of collective welfare activities in the jail during the period of imprisonment, such as education, recreational, vocational etc.\n(ii) Aid to deserving prisoners in shape of money grants; and\n(iii) Aid to individual prisoners for equipment for trade or clothing at the time of release",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 2
        },
        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Sources of income.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 3
        },
        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Administration of the Fun.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(i)\nThe Superintendent\n—\nChairman.\n(ii)\nDeputy Supdt\n—\nSecretary.\n(iii)\nMedical Officer,\n—\nMember.\n(iv)\nAsstt. Superintendent\n—\nMember.\n(v)\nChief Head Warder\n—\nMember.\n(vi)\nAccount Officer\n—\nTreasure.\n(vii)\nTwo convict Officers\n—\nMember\n(b) (i) The members referred to at serial number (vii) of the sub-clause ;(a) should be nominated by the Superintendent for a period of one year.\n(ii) To become eligible for nomination the prisoner must have :\n(1) undergone at least one year's imprisonment with very good record on the date of nomination ; and\n(2) at least one year's sentence still to undergo on the date of nomination.\n(iii) Detenues and unconvicted criminal prisoners should not be eligible for being nominated as representatives on the committee.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 4
        },
        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Meeting of the Committee.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Provided that the amount of such help does not exceed Rs. 50/- in each case and in aggregate Rs. 250/- during the period intervening two meetings of the committee.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 5
        },
        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Method of collection and accounting.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(b) Vouchers shall be defaced, numbered consecutively for the year in order of payment and filled on a separate file kept for the purpose.\n(c) Cash book shall be checked in detail and signed by the Secretary whenever there are fresh entries in it.\n(d) On the last day of each month, the Chairman shall conduct the physical verification of the cash in hand and balance in the passbook. He shall also check the vouchers and ensure about the correctness of the accounts maintained by the Treasurer and record a certificate of such verification in the relevant registers under his own signature in token of the proof of conducting such physical verification.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 6
        },
        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Checking of Accounts by Audit.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 7
        },
        {
            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Submission of half yearly reports.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "II. Appeals and Petitions\nII. Appeals and Petitions",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 8
        },
        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Prisoner to be given facilities for appealing.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 9
        },
        {
            "number": "11",
            "title": "11. Interview for the purpose of appealing.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 10
        },
        {
            "number": "12",
            "title": "12. Prohibition against writing appeals without permission.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 11
        },
        {
            "number": "13",
            "title": "13. Appeal for a prisoner who has no friend or agent.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Note 1:\nNote 2:",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 12
        },
        {
            "number": "14",
            "title": "14. When an appeal is not desires.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 13
        },
        {
            "number": "15",
            "title": "15. Prisoners not to be transferred pending appeal.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 14
        },
        {
            "number": "16",
            "title": "16. Appeals of prisoners transferred.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 15
        },
        {
            "number": "17",
            "title": "17. Reminders enquiring the result of appeal.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 16
        },
        {
            "number": "18",
            "title": "18. Procedure when a Court directs the retrial of a prisoner.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 17
        },
        {
            "number": "19",
            "title": "19. Petition for clemency.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 18
        },
        {
            "number": "20",
            "title": "20. Prisoner sentenced to death.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "III. Interviews and Communications\nIII. Interviews and Communications",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 19
        },
        {
            "number": "21",
            "title": "21. General Rules for the grant of interviews and communications.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 20
        },
        {
            "number": "22",
            "title": "22. Rules for grant of interviews and communication to and by convict.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Provided that the exercise of this privilege shall be contingent on good conduct and may be withdrawn or postponed by the Superintendent for bad conduct.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 21
        },
        {
            "number": "23",
            "title": "23. Exception to General Rules.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "24. interviews or communications to take place with the sanction of Superintendent.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 22
        },
        {
            "number": "25",
            "title": "25. Application for interview to be oral or in writing.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 23
        },
        {
            "number": "26",
            "title": "26. Persons granted an interview may be searched.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Provided that no such search shall be made in the presence of any prisoner or person other than the proper officers of the jail, and, in the case of a female visitor, that such search shall be conducted by the Matron or a female warder. If the visitor refuses to submit to be searched or to give his name or address, he shall not be permitted to enter the jail or to have an interview with any prisoner.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 24
        },
        {
            "number": "27",
            "title": "27. Search of visitors.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 25
        },
        {
            "number": "28",
            "title": "28. Time and days of interview.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 26
        },
        {
            "number": "29",
            "title": "29. Places of interviews.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Provided that if a prisoner is seriously ill, the Superintendent may permit the interview to take place in the hospital, and a condemned or security risk prisoner shall ordinarily be interviewed in his cell;\nProvided further that the Superintendent may, for special reasons to be recorded in writing, permit an interview to take place in any part of the jail.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 27
        },
        {
            "number": "30",
            "title": "30. Interview to take place in the presence of a jail officer.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 28
        },
        {
            "number": "31",
            "title": "31. Termination of interview.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 29
        },
        {
            "number": "32",
            "title": "32. Duration of interview.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 30
        },
        {
            "number": "33",
            "title": "33. Search of prisoner before and after interview.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 31
        },
        {
            "number": "34",
            "title": "34. Procedure as to the delivery of letters.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 32
        },
        {
            "number": "35",
            "title": "35. Detention or return of letters received for prisoners.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 33
        },
        {
            "number": "36",
            "title": "36. Custody of letters received by prisoner.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 34
        },
        {
            "number": "37",
            "title": "37. Provision of writing material.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 35
        },
        {
            "number": "38",
            "title": "38. Superintendent may refuse any interview.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 36
        },
        {
            "number": "39",
            "title": "39. Abuse of privilege of holding interview.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "IV. Special Rules Relating to under trial and Civil Prisoners.\nIV. Special Rules Relating to under trial and Civil Prisoners.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 37
        },
        {
            "number": "40",
            "title": "40. Visits to civil and unconvicted criminal prisoners.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 38
        },
        {
            "number": "41",
            "title": "41. Interview and communications of civil and unconvicted prisoners.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Provided that all reasonable facilities shall be granted at proper time and under proper restrictions for interviewing, or otherwise communicating either orally or in writing with their legal advisors.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 39
        },
        {
            "number": "42",
            "title": "42. Interviews of unconvicted prisoners with legal advisers.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Note:",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 40
        },
        {
            "number": "43",
            "title": "43. Application from Legal Advisors for interview of unconvicted prisoners.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 41
        },
        {
            "number": "44",
            "title": "44. Confidential letters of unconvicted prisoner.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Provided that in case of doubt, the Superintendent may, after recording the reasons in Superintendent's Journal, open and examine such communication before delivery.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 42
        },
        {
            "number": "45",
            "title": "45. Time of interview of civil prisoners.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 43
        }
    ],
    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "dl088",
        "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) (8), in exercise of the powers conferred under clauses (24) and (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 (Prisoners' Welfare Fund, Appeals, Petitions, Interviews and Communications) Rules, 1988",
        "Type": "UNION_TERRITORY",
        "Location": "Delhi"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:22"
}