Delhi Prisons (Treatment of Convicts Sentenced to Simple Imprisonment, Death Female Prisoners, Youthful Prisoners, Leper Prisoners and Lunatic Prisoners) Rules, 1988

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    "slug": "delhi-prisons-treatment-of-convicts-sentenced-to-simple-imprisonment-death-female-prisoners-youthful-prisoners-leper-prisoners-and-lunatic-prisoners-rules-1988",
    "title": "Delhi Prisons (Treatment of Convicts Sentenced to Simple Imprisonment, Death Female Prisoners, Youthful Prisoners, Leper Prisoners and Lunatic Prisoners) Rules, 1988",
    "short_title": "Delhi Prisons (Treatment of Convicts Sentenced to Simple Imprisonment, Death Female Prisoners, Youthful Prisoners, Leper Prisoners and Lunatic Prisoners) 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 (Treatment of Convicts Sentenced to Simple Imprisonment, Death Female Prisoners, Youthful Prisoners, Leper Prisoners and Lunatic Prisoners) Rules, 1988",
    "preamble": "",
    "section_label": "Section",
    "sections": [
        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Short title and commencement.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "I. Convicts, Sentenced to Simple Imprisonment\nI. Convicts, Sentenced to Simple Imprisonment",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 0
        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Treatment of simple imprisonment convicts.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(ii) They shall, with the exception of such as are classed habituals (who shall be required to wear the prescribed prison outfit), be permitted to retain their private clothing, but should not be allowed to wear such symbols as are prohibited by Delhi Administration from time to time.\n(iii) The Superintendent may for any sufficient reason, which he shall record in his journal deprive any convict of this class of the privilege of being allowed to wear his private clothing or any portion of it.\nNote:",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 1
        },
        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Articles to be issued, such articles to be kept clean.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) If his private clothing is insufficient for warrant or for purpose of decency, be supplied with such prison clothing as may be necessary.\n(b) be supplied with such utensils and beddings as issued to convicts under sentence of labour; and\n(c) be required to keep such clothing, bedding and other necessities as may be issued to him in a clean and orderly conditions.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 2
        },
        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Simple imprisonment convicts to keep the wards and yards clean.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 3
        },
        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Convicts allowed to converse.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 4
        },
        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Conditions subject to which convicts may labour.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(ii) if in the opinion of the Superintendent, he performs a reasonable amount of work, he shall be entitled to labouring diet and wages.\n(iii) He shall not be punished for neglect of work otherwise than reversion to the non-labouring scale diet.\n(iv) If he expresses a desire at any time to cease work, he shall be permitted to do SO.\n(v) If he elects to labour, he shall be required to wear the prison uniform.\nII. Prisoners Sentenced to Death\nII. Prisoners Sentenced to Death",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 5
        },
        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Intimation to Delhi Administration on admission and Execution of a death sentenced Prisoner in Jail.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(ii) On admission, a convict shall be thoroughly-searched as provided in section 30 of the Prisons Act. A woman officer or under her orders, by a Matron.\n(iii) Subject to the provisions of section 30 of the Act, all private property shall be removed from the convict.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 6
        },
        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Issue of articles on admission.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) a pyjama without cord and a kurta.\n(b) two all wool blankets or two cotton wool blankets,\n(c) a pot, plate and a mug made of plastic PVC.\n(ii) Two cotton sarees and blouses may be issued to female convicts. However, if it is considered unsafe to issue sarees to any such convicts, pyjama without cord and kurta may be issued to her.\n(iii) A sheet stating that the convict has been sentenced to death, with state of health, description and date of submission of mercy petition.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 7
        },
        {
            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Confinement in cell in special ward.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(ii) Where there is more than one such cell in a prison, the convict shall be changed daily from one cell to another.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 8
        },
        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Guarding.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(ii) A guard shall in no case be given more than three hours duty at a stretch;\n(iii) Every guard shall be equipped with a regulation baton and shall be so posted that the convict shall be under continuous watch. A convict shall not be taken out of his cell, unless at least two guards are present.\n(iv) If an attempt to commit suicide by a convict is noticed, the guard on duty or the matron shall raise alarm for help, and enter the cell.\n(v) The guard in whose charge a convict is put shall allow no one to approach the cell, or communicate with him in any manner except the Superintendent and any officer authorised by the Superintendent in this behalf.\n(vi) Every convict shall be thoroughly searched daily in the presence of the Deputy Superintendent immediately on opening of the cell in the morning when guards on duty are changed, and before lock-up.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 9
        },
        {
            "number": "11",
            "title": "11. Restriction on removal.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 10
        },
        {
            "number": "12",
            "title": "12. Interviews.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(ii) The convict shall be brought from the cell to the interview room if interview takes place out side the cell under proper escort at the time of interviewing and the interviewers and the convict shall be separated by expended metal barriers. \"The Superintendent shall before granting interviews, ensure that all precautionary and Security measures are taken before hand\".",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 11
        },
        {
            "number": "13",
            "title": "13. Subject to the security requirement.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(ii) A convict may on the recommendation of the Medical Officer, be allowed exercise in open air and within the prison walls in the morning and evening, under the care of the guard.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 12
        },
        {
            "number": "14",
            "title": "14. Appeals.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(ii) Whenever a sentence of death has been passed by any Court or Tribunal, the sentence shall not be executed until after the dismissal of the appeal or of the application or, in case no such appeal has been preferred, or no such application has been made, until after the expiry of the period allowed for an appeal or for making of such application : Provided that, if a petition for mercy has been submitted by or on behalf of a convict, the execution of the sentence shall further be postponed, pending orders of the President thereon: Provided further that, if the sentence of death has been passed on more than one person in the same case, and if an appeal or an application is made by or on behalf of only one or more but not all of them, the execution of the sentence shall be postponed i the case of all such convicts and not only in the case of the convict or convicts by whom, or on whose behalf, the appeal or the application is made.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 13
        },
        {
            "number": "15",
            "title": "15. Petition for mercy—Stay of execution.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 14
        },
        {
            "number": "16",
            "title": "16. Petition for mercy.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Provided that, in cases where no appeal has been preferred or no application has been made, the said period of seven days shall be computed from the date next after the date on which the period allowed for an appeal or for making an application expires.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 15
        },
        {
            "number": "17",
            "title": "17. Petition submitted after period prescribed.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 16
        },
        {
            "number": "18",
            "title": "18. Insanity.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the nominal roll of the prisoner;\n(b) a copy of the warrant under which he is confined (in duplicate);\n(c) the Medical officer's certificate; and\n(d) the medical history sheet.\nNote:",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 17
        },
        {
            "number": "19",
            "title": "19. Pregnancy.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 18
        },
        {
            "number": "20",
            "title": "20. Action on final confirmation of sentence.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the convict and his relatives shall be informed about the date of execution by the Superintendent;\n(b) the convict, if he so desires, be permitted to prepare his will in accordance with his wishes. If the convict does not desire to prepare his will, his statement to that effect shall be recorded by the Superintendent.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 19
        },
        {
            "number": "21",
            "title": "21. Execution of Death Sentence.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) The keys of the cell in which prisoner sentenced to death is confined shall be kept by the head warder on duty who, on hearing the alarm, shall proceed to such cell which in case of emergency, such as attempt by the Prisoner to commit suicide, he shall enter and with the help of the sentry frustrate it.\n(b) At no other time shall the door of the cell, in which Prisoner sentenced to death is confined, be opened without first handcuffing the prisoner and so securing him against the possibility of using violence or, if he declines to be handcuffed, unless at least three members of the establishment are present.\n(c) The locks in use in a condemned cell shall be such as cannot be opened by any keys in use in the jail, other than those properly belonging to them.\n(a) A prisoner sentenced to death should, unless there are any special reasons against it, which reasons should be recorded by the Superintendent in his journal, be permitted to occupy the court-yard of his cell for half an hour each morning and evening, but only one such prisoner at a time should be allowed to do so.\n(b) During the time a Prisoner sentenced to death occupies his cell-yard, both the cell and yard doors should be kept locked and on each occasion before opening the cell-door to admit the Prisoner to the yard, hand-cuffs should be applied and retained on him till he is again locked into the cell.\n(c) A prisoner sentenced to death shall not be removed from his cell to the cell/yard or vice versa for any purpose except in the presence of the Head Warder.\n(d) A convict sweeper or other prisoner allowed to enter the cell of a prisoner sentenced to death, to perform any duty shall first be carefully searched and while carrying out his duty shall be kept under close observations by the warders on duty. Before the cell door is opened, handcuffs should be applied to the prisoner and not be removed till the cell door is locked upon him.\nNote:\n(a) The prisoner shall be guarded by female warders who shall not be provided with batons.\n(b) The food shall be distributed by a female warder in the presence of the Deputy Superintendent.\n(c) The prisoner shall not be handcuffed when she is allowed into the cell-yard.\n(a) The Superintendent is responsible that the arrangements for an execution are complete and made good in time and that the gallows, rope, cap and pinioning straps are in good order.\n(b) The occurrence of any mishap or departure from the orders laid down, shall be reported to the Inspector General.\n(a) A manila rope one inch in diametre shall be used for executions. At least two such ropes in serviceable condition shall be maintained at every jail where executions are liable to take place.\nNote:\n(b) The ropes shall be tested in the presence of Superintendent, at least a week before the date fixed for the execution and if they fail to pass the test others shall be obtained at once and tested when received.\n(c) Ropes that have been tested shall be locked up in a place of safety.\n(d) On the evening before the execution is to take place, the gallows and ropes should be examined to ascertain that they have received no injury since being tested.\nNote:\n(a) Executions shalt be carried out by the Public Executioner whenever the services of the official are available and failing him, by his assistant or some trust-worthy individual locally entertained for the purpose.\n(b) On the first occasion of the employment of any person to perform the work of an Executioner, the Superintendent shall satisfy himself that he understands how to perform the duty. Such person shall reside at the jail for two days prior to the day fixed for the execution.\nNote:\nNote:\n(a) Executions shall take place at the following hours :\nNovember to February 8 a.m.\nMarch, April,\nSeptember & October 7 a.m.\nMay to August 6 a.m.\n(b) The Superintendent and Deputy Superintendent will visit the prisoner sentenced to death in his cell a few minutes before the hour fixed for execution. The Superintendent shall then first identify the prisoner, as the prisoner named in the warrant and read over a translation of the warrant in vernacular to the prisoner. Any other documents requiring attestation by the prisoner, such as his will, shall thereafter be signed and attested in the presence of the Superintendent. The Superintendent will then proceed to the scaffold, the prisoner regaining in his cell. In the presence of the Deputy Superintendent, the hands of the convict will next -be pinioned behind his back and his leg irons (if any) struck off.\n(c) The prisoner shall now be marched to the scaffold under the charge of the Deputy Superintendent and guarded by a Head Warder and six warders, two proceeding in front, two behind and each one holding either arm.\n(d) On the arrival of the prisoner at the scaffold, where the Superintendent, Magistrate and Medical Officer have already taken their places, the Superintendent shall inform the Magistrate that he has identified the prisoner and read the warrant over to him in vernacular. The prisoner shall then be made over to the Executioner.\n(e) The Criminal shall now mount the scaffold and shall be placed directly under the beam to which the rope is attached, the warders still holding him by the arms.\n(f) The Executioner shall next strap his legs tightly together, place the cap over his head and face and adjust the rope lighting round his neck, the noose being 1 1/2 inches to the right or left of the middle line and free from the fillip of the cap.\n(g) The warders holding the prisoner's arms shall now withdraw and at a signal from the Superintendent, the Executioner shall draw the bolt.\n(a) The body shall remain suspended half an hour and shall not be taken down till the Medical Officer declares life the extinct.\n(b) The Superintendent shall return the warrant of execution with an endorsement to [-the effect that the sentence has been carried out.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 20
        },
        {
            "number": "22",
            "title": "22. No execution on public holiday.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 21
        },
        {
            "number": "23",
            "title": "23. Postponement of execution on sentence on medical ground.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 22
        },
        {
            "number": "24",
            "title": "24. Delay in capital sentence.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 23
        },
        {
            "number": "25",
            "title": "25. Report of execution of death sentence.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "III. Female Prisoner and Children\nIII. Female Prisoner and Children",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 24
        },
        {
            "number": "26",
            "title": "26. Disposal of female convict.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 25
        },
        {
            "number": "27",
            "title": "27. A female under trial allowed to occupy a cell.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 26
        },
        {
            "number": "28",
            "title": "28. When a female prisoner is the only occupant of a war.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 27
        },
        {
            "number": "29",
            "title": "29. Children of female prisoners.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 28
        },
        {
            "number": "30",
            "title": "30. Female remain in the female enclosure.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 29
        },
        {
            "number": "31",
            "title": "31. Supply of food and concertante of the female enclosure.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 30
        },
        {
            "number": "32",
            "title": "32. Keys of the female enclosure lock of main entrance.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Note 1:\nIV. Youthful Prisoners\nIV. Youthful Prisoners",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 31
        },
        {
            "number": "33",
            "title": "33. Definition.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(1) those who are of the ages sixteen, seventeen and eighteen are to be called adolescent prisoners ; and\n(2) those who are of the ages nineteen, twenty and twenty one are to be called youth prisoners.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": true,
            "sort_order": 32
        },
        {
            "number": "34",
            "title": "34. Adolescents to be kept separate at night and associated by day.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 33
        },
        {
            "number": "35",
            "title": "35. Youth to be kept separate at night and associated by day.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 34
        },
        {
            "number": "36",
            "title": "36. Deputy Superintendent to be in-charge.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 35
        },
        {
            "number": "37",
            "title": "37. Adolescent and youth to be taught a handicraft, exercised daily and instructed.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) employed on or taught some simple and suitable handicraft ;\n(b) exercise one hour each day either by marching by drill or by gymnastic exercises or sports or athletics activity, and\n(c) a male, sentenced to imprisonment for a year or more, be brought under a course of instruction in basic education for an hour in the morning and an hour in the afternoon daily.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 36
        },
        {
            "number": "38",
            "title": "38. Employment of a convict as instructor.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 37
        },
        {
            "number": "39",
            "title": "39. Instruction to be given to adolescent and youth prisoners.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 38
        },
        {
            "number": "40",
            "title": "40. Television, books and sports facilities.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 39
        },
        {
            "number": "41",
            "title": "41. Supply of adequate clothing.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "V. Leper Prisoners\nV. Leper Prisoners",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 40
        },
        {
            "number": "42",
            "title": "42. Record of leprosy on history tickets.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 41
        },
        {
            "number": "43",
            "title": "43. Procedure when it is desired to transfer a leper.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 42
        },
        {
            "number": "44",
            "title": "44. Segregation and disinfection.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Note:\nVI. Lunatic Prisoners\nVI. Lunatic Prisoners",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 43
        },
        {
            "number": "45",
            "title": "45. Classification of criminal lunatics.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 44
        },
        {
            "number": "46",
            "title": "46. Non-criminal lunatics.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 45
        },
        {
            "number": "47",
            "title": "47. Detention of criminal lunatic—Procedure when period expires.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Note:",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 46
        },
        {
            "number": "48",
            "title": "48. Procedure when certain lunatics are committed to jail.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 47
        },
        {
            "number": "49",
            "title": "49. Criminal lunatics how to be confined.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 48
        },
        {
            "number": "50",
            "title": "50. Report on a convict who becomes insane.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 49
        },
        {
            "number": "51",
            "title": "51. Transfer of a lunatic prisoner to a mental hospital.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the Government order directing his transfer;\n(b) his descriptive roll;\n(c) a medical certificate;\n(d) his history ticket and private property, if any;\n(e) warrant of imprisonment;\n(f) remission sheet;\n(g) if a convict a copy of the Court's Judgment in his case.\nNote 1:\nNote 2:",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 50
        },
        {
            "number": "52",
            "title": "52. Condition before a transfer can be made.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 51
        },
        {
            "number": "53",
            "title": "53. Transfer in anticipation in urgent cases.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 52
        },
        {
            "number": "54",
            "title": "54. Time spent in asylum to count as sentence.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 53
        },
        {
            "number": "55",
            "title": "55. Procedure when a recovered lunatic has a relapse.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 54
        },
        {
            "number": "56",
            "title": "56. Transfer of lunatic returned to jail.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 55
        },
        {
            "number": "57",
            "title": "57. Half yearly return of criminal lunatics.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Note:",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 56
        },
        {
            "number": "58",
            "title": "58. Discipline and punishment of lunatics.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 57
        },
        {
            "number": "59",
            "title": "59. Lunatics to be visited by Inspector General etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 58
        }
    ],
    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "dl089",
        "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)/(9), in exercise of the powers conferred under Clause (23), (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 (Treatment of Convicts Sentenced to Simple Imprisonment, Death Female Prisoners, Youthful Prisoners, Leper Prisoners and Lunatic Prisoners) Rules, 1988",
        "Type": "UNION_TERRITORY",
        "Location": "Delhi"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:22"
}