Delhi Prisons (Transfer of Prisoner, Labour and Jail Industry, Food, Clothings and Sanitation) Rules, 1988

Q: What does Section 1 of Delhi Prisons (Transfer of Prisoner, Labour and Jail Industry, Food, Clothings and Sanitation) Rules, 1988 say?

I. Transfer of Prisoners I. Transfer of Prisoners

Q: What does Section 2 of Delhi Prisons (Transfer of Prisoner, Labour and Jail Industry, Food, Clothings and Sanitation) Rules, 1988 say?

(a) custody and treatment in a prison in accordance with the classification of prisons by Delhi Administration; (b) medical grounds; (c) humanitarian grounds, and in the interests of their welfare and rehabilitation; (d) providing essential services in prisons: (e) grounds of security. expediency or overcrowding in prisons or (f) any other ground recorded in writing in that behalf.

Q: What does Section 3 of Delhi Prisons (Transfer of Prisoner, Labour and Jail Industry, Food, Clothings and Sanitation) Rules, 1988 say?

(a) in any case which in the opinion of the Superintendent is emergent; (b) in the following cases, that is to say :- (i) Removal of prisoners according to classification of prisoners as per standing orders in force ; (ii) Removal of prisoners on urgent medical grounds

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9. District Magistrate and District Superintendent of Police or Commissioner of Police, Delhi to be informed of certain removals before hand.

Section 9

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            "number": "36",
            "title": "36. Receipts for prisoners etcGovernment property to be returned.",
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            "number": "37",
            "title": "37. Procedure when property is missing.",
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            "title": "39. Entries with regard to labour in the history ticket.",
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            "number": "42",
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            "title": "44. Description of worklabour task to be fixed.",
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            "title": "46. Procedure when a new form of labour is introduced.",
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            "number": "47",
            "title": "47. Time to be given to acquire skill.",
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            "number": "48",
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            "title": "49. Tasks to be measured or weighed.",
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            "number": "50",
            "title": "50. Work done to be measured and entered daily.",
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            "number": "51",
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            "content": "Note 1:\n(a) the price of the raw materials;\n(b) the wages of jail labour, rated according to the minimum wages fixed by Public Works Department and Industries Department for skilled labour ;\n(c) a percentage for wear and tear of plant, and\n(d) a percentage on account of profits.\nNote 2:\nNote 3:",
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            "title": "56. How jail labour may be utilise Convicts not to be employed on certain works.",
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            "content": "(a) for the preparation of building materials for the Public Works Department or for private sale, within the jail premises ;\n(b) for the construction of works under the Public Works Department in or near the jail; and",
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            "content": "Provided that this prohibition shall not be deemed to extent to the employment of prisoners on jail works, in the jail garden, or on duties connected with the management of premises subject to such directions as the Inspector General may, from time to time, give in that behalf.",
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            "title": "60. Restriction on the employment of prisoners outside jail walls.",
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            "content": "(a) until he has undergone not less than one-twelfth of the substantive term to imprisonment to which he has been sentenced.\n(b) without the sanction of the Inspector General if the unexpired term to substantive imprisonment together with imprisonment (if any) in lieu of fine, to which he has been sentenced exceeds one year,\n(c) if any charge or charges are pending against him.",
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            "title": "62. Restriction on the employment of convicts as menial servants.",
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            "number": "63",
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            "number": "64",
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            "number": "65",
            "title": "65. Employment of prisoners as clerks.",
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            "number": "66",
            "title": "66. No prisoner to be allowed to visit the bazar.",
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            "number": "67",
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            "number": "68",
            "title": "68. Responsible officer to keep manufactory accounts.",
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            "number": "69",
            "title": "69. Disposal of proceeds of employment of prisoners.",
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            "content": "(a) any article at any time supplied for use in any industry carried on in any jail. or manufactured by any prisoner ;\n(b) any sum of money realised from or received on account of the sale of any such article or of the earnings of any prisoner, and the whole amount of every sum of money so realised or received shall, as soon as may be. be paid to the credit of the Government in the nearest public treasury.\nNote:",
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            "number": "70",
            "title": "70. Yearly audit of the factory accounts.",
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            "content": "III. Prisoners Food and Clothing\nIII. Prisoners Food and Clothing",
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            "number": "71",
            "title": "71. Prisoners not to possess, receive or consume any article not prescribed.",
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            "number": "72",
            "title": "72. Daily issue of prison diet in three meals.",
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            "number": "73",
            "title": "73. Food to be issued at each meal.",
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            "number": "74",
            "title": "74. Power to fix scales of prison diet.",
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            "content": "(a) vary the scale of prison diet generally, or that prescribed in respect of prisoners of any class;\n(b) prescribe a special scale of prison diet in respect of jail, and\n(c) prescribe a special scale of prison diet in respect of any period or periods of time, during any season of the year.",
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            "number": "75",
            "title": "75. Scales of diet for prisoners of various classes Exhibition of scales.",
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            "content": "(1) Males:\n(a) when subjected to labour ;\n(b) when not subjected to labour ;\n(2) Females :\n(a) when subjected to labour ;\n(b) when not subjected to labour ;\n(c) when nursing infants which are permitted to reside m the jail.\n(3) Children:\n(a) when permitted to reside in the jail with female prisoners or after the death of mother.",
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            "number": "76",
            "title": "76. Powers reserved to Medical Officer to vary prison diet.",
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            "content": "Provided that it shall not be lawful for the Medical Officer to vary, in any case, the scale of prison diet for the time being prescribed, by way of punishment, or otherwise than in the manner in, to the extent to and for the period for which it may, in such Medical Officer's opinion, be expedient to do so on medical grounds and for the benefit of the prisoner concerned.\nNote:",
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            "number": "77",
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            "sort_order": 76
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        {
            "number": "78",
            "title": "78. Supervision of foodstuffs and water supply.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) pure and wholesome water is provided for consumption by the prisoners, and that a supply of such water is at all times freely available to every prisoner for drinking purposes ;\n(b) every article at any time issued, or intended to be issued, for the food of any prisoner is, of the prescribed quantity and quality and is good, wholesome and fit for human consumption ;\n(c) every article of food supplied to any prisoner in a cooked state or which requires to be cooked before being so supplied, is properly and cleanly cooked in such manner as to be wholesome and reasonably palatable ;\n(d) every article of food, whether cooked or uncooked, is subjected to proper examination and inspection before it is issued for consumption by any prisoner;\n(e) all food-stuffs at any time obtained and stored in the jail are frequently inspected, and that all articles which are unwholesome or in any respect unfit for human consumption, are forthwith rejected and are not issued for the use of prisoner ; and that\n(f) proper places for the convenient and orderly distribution and suitable utensils and other appliances for the consumption of food, are duly provided.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 77
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        {
            "number": "79",
            "title": "79. Offences connected with food supply, time and place of consumption.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 78
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        {
            "number": "80",
            "title": "80. Examination of food by Medical Officer.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) ordinarily examine the food daily and when defective in quality, make a note of the fact in his journal; and\n(b) at uncertain times and at least once a week when the food is cooked and ready for issue and occasionally after distribution to the prisoners, cause such food to be weighed in his presence and note the result in his journal.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 79
        },
        {
            "number": "81",
            "title": "81. Inspection of food by Superintendent.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 80
        },
        {
            "number": "82",
            "title": "82. Food of prisoners on transfer.",
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            "content": "(i) 3 P.M. during winter from 1st October to 31st March,\n(ii) 4 P.M. during summer from 1st April to 30th September.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 81
        },
        {
            "number": "83",
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            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 82
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        {
            "number": "84",
            "title": "84. Scales, weights and measureComplaints concerning food.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 83
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        {
            "number": "85",
            "title": "85. The Issue of uncooked food.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 84
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        {
            "number": "86",
            "title": "86. The cooking of food, cleanliness of vessels etc..",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 85
        },
        {
            "number": "87",
            "title": "87. Protection from the weather during meals.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 86
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        {
            "number": "88",
            "title": "88. Responsibility for purchase and storage.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 87
        },
        {
            "number": "89",
            "title": "89. The purchase of grain.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 88
        },
        {
            "number": "90",
            "title": "90. Examination of grain, prompt payment to be made.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 89
        },
        {
            "number": "91",
            "title": "91. The Storage and subsequent care of grain.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 90
        },
        {
            "number": "92",
            "title": "92. Supply of clothing, bedding and Prisoners not to use or possess any other.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 91
        },
        {
            "number": "93",
            "title": "93. Convicts to wear prison dress.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Provided that the Inspector General may, at any time, in his discretion. by general or special order in that behalf, relax the provisions of this rule in respect of any prisoner or class of prisoner under sentence of simple imprisonment, subject to such conditions as he may think fit to impose in that behalf.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 92
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        {
            "number": "94",
            "title": "94. Clothing for prisoners sentenced to simple imprisonment.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 93
        },
        {
            "number": "95",
            "title": "95. When convicts are permitted to wear private clothing.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 94
        },
        {
            "number": "96",
            "title": "96. Prisoners to conform to orders as to the care and custody of articles.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 95
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        {
            "number": "97",
            "title": "97. Powers to fix scale of prison clothing and bedding.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) vary the scale of clothing and bedding generally, or that prescribed in respect of prisoners of any class ;\n(b) prescribe a special scale in respect of the prisoners confined in any jail or in the jails situate within any specified local area ;\n(c) prescribe a special scale in respect of any period or periods of time or during any season of the year ; and\n(d) vary the shape, size, material or quality of any article prescribed in any scale of clothing or bedding.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 96
        },
        {
            "number": "98",
            "title": "98. Provisions to be made in prescribing clothing, bedding and C. Exhibition of scales.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 97
        },
        {
            "number": "99",
            "title": "99. Powers reserved to Medical Officer to order extra clothing.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 98
        },
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            "number": "100",
            "title": "100. Scales of clothing, bedding and equipment.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Males\nFemale\n1\n2\n(a) Winter wear\n(a) Winter wear\n2 Dasuti trousers and Kachhas\n(for 2 Dasuti Pyjamas. Sikhs only)\n2 Dasuti Caps or Garah puggrees\n2 Dasuti Chaddars. (for Sikhs only)\n2 Langotas (for non-Sikhs only)\n2 Napkins\nFor both sexes\nFor both sexes\n2 Dasuti Coats\n1 Khaki cotton durrie 6' x 2'\n1\n2\n1 Blanket Coat with belt\n1 Towel\n3 Blankets\n1 Iron, cup\n1 Munj or Bahabbar Mar\n1 Iron plate\n2 Cotton Sheets\n2 Azarbands\n(b) Summer wear\n(b) Summer wear\n2 Dasuti Trousers and Kachhas\n2 Dasuti Payjamas (for Sikhs only)\n2 Dasuti Caps or Garah puggrees\n2 Dasuti GLaddars (for Sikhs only)\nFor Both Sexes\nFor Both Sexes\n2 Garah Kurtas\n2 Azarbands\n1 Khaki Cotton durrie 6' x 2'\n1 Towel\n1 Munj or Bhabbar mat\n1 Iron Cup\n2 Cotton Sheets\n1 Iron Plate\n(c) Utensils\n(c) Utensils\n1 Thali\n1 Glass\n2 Katories\nNote:",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 99
        },
        {
            "number": "101",
            "title": "101. Supply of Baiter.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 100
        },
        {
            "number": "102",
            "title": "102. Clothing of convict officers.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 101
        },
        {
            "number": "103",
            "title": "103. Supply of prison clothing and c. of to certain prisoners.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 102
        },
        {
            "number": "104",
            "title": "104. Clothing and c. of infants.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 103
        },
        {
            "number": "105",
            "title": "105. Standard pattern for all articles.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 104
        },
        {
            "number": "106",
            "title": "106. Clothing to be worn in the manner prescribed.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 105
        },
        {
            "number": "107",
            "title": "107. Clothing to be marked.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 106
        },
        {
            "number": "108",
            "title": "108. TimeClothing should last.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 107
        },
        {
            "number": "109",
            "title": "109. Distribution of clothing.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 108
        },
        {
            "number": "110",
            "title": "110. Hospital clothing.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 109
        },
        {
            "number": "111",
            "title": "111. Extra clothing for convalescents.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 110
        },
        {
            "number": "112",
            "title": "112. Sufficient clothing to be kept in stock.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 111
        },
        {
            "number": "113",
            "title": "113. Prisoners to get old clothing at certain times.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 112
        },
        {
            "number": "114",
            "title": "114. Clothing to be kept service able.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 113
        },
        {
            "number": "115",
            "title": "115. Cleanliness of clothing and bedding.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 114
        },
        {
            "number": "116",
            "title": "116. Supervision of supply of clothing and bedding.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) every prisoner is provided with sufficient clothing and bedding, to secure his health ;\n(b) every prisoner entitled to prison clothing and bedding is duly supplied therewith according to the prescribed scale applicable to the class to which such prisoner belongs ;\n(c) all clothing and bedding supplied is of the prescribed description and quality, clean in good condition and in all respects suitable for use by prisoners ;\n(d) all articles of clothing or bedding at any time obtained and stored in the jail are frequently inspected, and that all articles which are in respect unsuitable or inferior to the prescribed description and quality are forthwith rejected and are not issued for the use of prisoners.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 115
        },
        {
            "number": "117",
            "title": "117. Duty of Inspector General with regard to clothing and c..",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 116
        },
        {
            "number": "118",
            "title": "118. Responsibility of prisoners regarding clothing and c..",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 117
        },
        {
            "number": "119",
            "title": "119. Disposal of Unserviceable clothing.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 118
        },
        {
            "number": "120",
            "title": "120. Disposal of clothing received on release.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 119
        },
        {
            "number": "121",
            "title": "121. Charge of clothing godownProtection from pestes.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 120
        },
        {
            "number": "122",
            "title": "122. Clothing of prisoners transferred.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 121
        },
        {
            "number": "123",
            "title": "123. Indenting.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "IV. Sanitation\nIV. Sanitation\n(A) Construction of Buildings, Accommodation and Over Crowding.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 122
        },
        {
            "number": "124",
            "title": "124. Capacity of wards and Cells.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 123
        },
        {
            "number": "125",
            "title": "125. Design, architecture and specification.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 124
        },
        {
            "number": "126",
            "title": "126. Ventilation, wards and cells.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 125
        },
        {
            "number": "127",
            "title": "127. Certificate of fitness for occupation.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 126
        },
        {
            "number": "128",
            "title": "128. Sleeping berths in wards.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 127
        },
        {
            "number": "129",
            "title": "129. Requirements of cell, daily visit to occupant.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 128
        },
        {
            "number": "130",
            "title": "130. Height of walls of cell-yard.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 129
        },
        {
            "number": "131",
            "title": "131. Procedure when in is necessary to provide shelter outside a jail.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 130
        },
        {
            "number": "132",
            "title": "132. Provision for custody of prisoners in excess of accommodation.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 131
        },
        {
            "number": "133",
            "title": "133. The cleanliness of buildings generallyFloors to be leeped.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 132
        },
        {
            "number": "134",
            "title": "134. Return of prisoners in jail on last day of the month.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(B) Conservancy",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 133
        },
        {
            "number": "135",
            "title": "135. Premises to be kept cleanCesspools prohibited and Other sanitary matter.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 134
        },
        {
            "number": "136",
            "title": "136. Latrines for Warders.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 135
        },
        {
            "number": "137",
            "title": "137. Drainage of jail landSanitary defects to be reported.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(C) Water Supply",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 136
        },
        {
            "number": "138",
            "title": "138. Supply of water to prisonerPrecautions as to vessels.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 137
        },
        {
            "number": "139",
            "title": "139. Supply of water for other purposes.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(D) Disposal of the Dead",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 138
        },
        {
            "number": "140",
            "title": "140. Conditions under which a body may be made over to friends.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Note 1:\nNote 2:",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 139
        },
        {
            "number": "141",
            "title": "141. Disposal of a body not made over to the friends.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Note:",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 140
        },
        {
            "number": "142",
            "title": "142. Burial ground for every jail.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 141
        },
        {
            "number": "143",
            "title": "143. Selection of a burial ground.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 142
        },
        {
            "number": "144",
            "title": "144. Matters concerning graves, graveyards, burial and cremation.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 143
        }
    ],
    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "dl090",
        "Act Number": "Published vide in Delhi Gazette, Extra ordinary Part 4, No 76, dated the 18th April, 1988, vide Notification No. F 9/75/87 Home (General) (10), in exercise of the powers conferred by clause (11), (14), (15), (22), (27) and (28) of Section 59 of the Prisons Act, 1894 (9, of 1894), by the Administrator of the Union Teritory of Delhi",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "1988",
        "Short Title": "Delhi Prisons (Transfer of Prisoner, Labour and Jail Industry, Food, Clothings and Sanitation) Rules, 1988",
        "Type": "UNION_TERRITORY",
        "Location": "Delhi"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:22"
}

Delhi Prisons (Transfer of Prisoner, Labour and Jail Industry, Food, Clothings and Sanitation) Rules, 1988

Sections

1. Short title and commencement.

2. Circumstances of removal.

3. Superintendent to remove prisoners with sanction.

4. Removal of certain prisoners to Special Prison or Prisons where habitual offenders are confined.

5. Removal on medical grounds.

6. Removal of prisoners sentenced to solitary confinement.

7. Removal of convict officers.

8. Restrictions on manner of removal of prisoners.

9. District Magistrate and District Superintendent of Police or Commissioner of Police, Delhi to be informed of certain removals before hand.

10. Procedure before removal.

11. Details about prisoners to be supplied before band to Police.

12. Transfer of prisoner from one State to another (Transferor Prisoners Act 1950) (Act 29 of 1950).

13. Convict to be transferred to undergo sentence.

14. Procedure when a convict is unfit to travel.

15. Prisoners not ordinarily to be transferred.

16. Document etc. to be sent with a prisoner.

17. Action when a transfer order cannot be carried out.

18. Jail official to accompany prisoners.

19. Notice of intended dispatch to be sent to Police.

20. Scale of Police escort for prisoners.

21. Convicts to be handcuffed before removal.

22. Diet of prisoners removed from jail.

23. Money advance for road expenses.

24. Different kinds of conveyance by rail.

25. Notice to Railway authoritiesClass of train.

26. Adjustment of expense.

27. Prisoners to be searched before transferReceipt to be taken.

28. Telegram to be sent on the dispatch of prisoner.

29. Time of arrival of prisoners.

30. Duties of the warder or Police officer in-charge of prisoner.

31. Documents etc. to be examined.

32. Illness of a prisoner on transferUltimate disposal.

33. Death of a prisoner before he can be received in any jail.

34. Escape en-route.

35. Recapture of a prisoner who escapes on transfer.

36. Receipts for prisoners etcGovernment property to be returned.

37. Procedure when property is missing.

38. Days on which convicts are exempted from labour.

39. Entries with regard to labour in the history ticket.

40. Hours of Test from labour to vary with the season.

41. Hours of commencing and stopping work.

42. Prisoners locked up during hours of rest.

43. Classes of labour.

44. Description of worklabour task to be fixed.

45. Tasks to be imposed on female and juvenile convicts.

46. Procedure when a new form of labour is introduced.

47. Time to be given to acquire skill.

48. Frequent change of work to be avoided.

49. Tasks to be measured or weighed.

50. Work done to be measured and entered daily.

51. Means and appliances for labour to be provided.

52. Hardest suitable form of labour to be exactedProvisoProfit not to be considered.

53. How convict labour may be employed.

54. Manufacture of articles for sale.

55. Supply of articles to Government Departments.

56. How jail labour may be utilise Convicts not to be employed on certain works.

57. Convict labour on jail building.

58. Prohibition against employment of small gangs of prisoners.

59. Sanction to extramural employment.

60. Restriction on the employment of prisoners outside jail walls.

61. Certain prisoners not to be allowed out.

62. Restriction on the employment of convicts as menial servants.

63. Selection and limitation of menial servants.

64. No prisoner to be employed on private work or service.

65. Employment of prisoners as clerks.

66. No prisoner to be allowed to visit the bazar.

67. Charge of material or manufactures.

68. Responsible officer to keep manufactory accounts.

69. Disposal of proceeds of employment of prisoners.

70. Yearly audit of the factory accounts.

71. Prisoners not to possess, receive or consume any article not prescribed.

72. Daily issue of prison diet in three meals.

73. Food to be issued at each meal.

74. Power to fix scales of prison diet.

75. Scales of diet for prisoners of various classes Exhibition of scales.

76. Powers reserved to Medical Officer to vary prison diet.

77. Duty of Inspector General to ensure adequate supplies.

78. Supervision of foodstuffs and water supply.

25. Notice to Railway authoritiesClass of train.

27. Prisoners to be searched before transferReceipt to be taken.

32. Illness of a prisoner on transferUltimate disposal.

36. Receipts for prisoners etcGovernment property to be returned.

44. Description of worklabour task to be fixed.

52. Hardest suitable form of labour to be exactedProvisoProfit not to be considered.

56. How jail labour may be utilise Convicts not to be employed on certain works.

75. Scales of diet for prisoners of various classes Exhibition of scales.

83. All articles to be weighed out to the cookDetails of the preparation of food.

84. Scales, weights and measureComplaints concerning food.

108. TimeClothing should last.

121. Charge of clothing godownProtection from pestes.

133. The cleanliness of buildings generallyFloors to be leeped.

135. Premises to be kept cleanCesspools prohibited and Other sanitary matter.

137. Drainage of jail landSanitary defects to be reported.

138. Supply of water to prisonerPrecautions as to vessels.