Delhi Prisons (Visitors of Prisons) Rules, 1988

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    "title": "Delhi Prisons (Visitors of Prisons) Rules, 1988",
    "short_title": "Delhi Prisons (Visitors of Prisons) Rules, 1988",
    "act_number": "Published vide in Delhi Gazette, Extra ordinary Pa",
    "act_year": 1988,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Delhi",
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    "enactment_date": null,
    "description": "Delhi Prisons (Visitors of Prisons) Rules, 1988",
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            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Short title and commencement.",
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        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Visitors.",
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            "content": "(a) ex-officio.\n(b) (1) Officials or (2) non-officials, appointed by name by the Administrator.\n(a) Secretary Home, Delhi Administration, Delhi.\n(b) Commissioner of Police.\n(c) District and Sessions Judge.\n(d) District Magistrate.\n(e) Director, Social Welfare Deptt., Delhi Administration, Delhi.",
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        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Visits by official visitors.",
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        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Duties of official visitors.",
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        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Non-Official visitors term of official appointment.",
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        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Non-official visitors to be gazetted.",
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        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Visits by non-official visitors.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Duties of all visitors.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. District Magistrate to visit and inspect jails.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Exercise by District Magistrate of powers under the Prisons Act.",
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            "sort_order": 9
        },
        {
            "number": "11",
            "title": "11. District Magistrate to communicate with Superintendent.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 10
        },
        {
            "number": "12",
            "title": "12. Board of Visitors.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "13",
            "title": "13. Duties of visitors.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "14",
            "title": "14. Time of visit.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 13
        },
        {
            "number": "15",
            "title": "15. Punishing the Prisoners for complaints made to visitors-Respect for visitors.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "16.\nProvided that the visitor shall in no case interview a prisoner convicted of sedition or of an offence into which the element of sedition has entered except in the presence of the Superintendent or the Deputy Superintendent.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 14
        },
        {
            "number": "17",
            "title": "17. Duties of Lady visitors.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "18",
            "title": "18. Date of visit to be recorded and Copy of remarks to be sent to certain Officers.",
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            "sort_order": 16
        },
        {
            "number": "19",
            "title": "19. Disposal of the record made by a visitor.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Note:",
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            "sort_order": 17
        },
        {
            "number": "20",
            "title": "20. Admission of Police Officers and the interrogation of prisoners by them.",
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            "content": "(a) for the purpose of recognising habitual criminals at the , of the Superintendent's Weekly parade ; and\n(b) for the purpose of conducting operations for the identification of prisoners during working hours on any week day ; or\nProvided that the permission to the Police Officers of the subordinate rank to enter the jail for the purpose of recognising the habitual criminals may be granted only if the habitual criminals to be recognised have been declared to be the habitual criminals by the Competent Authority at the time of their conviction or afterwards.",
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        {
            "number": "21",
            "title": "21. Rank of officer deputed to interrogate a prisoner.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "22",
            "title": "22. Police Officer to be in uniform.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 20
        },
        {
            "number": "23",
            "title": "23. Officers of the PWD may enter the jail during business hours.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 21
        },
        {
            "number": "24",
            "title": "24. Special permission to be accorded to other persons.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 22
        }
    ],
    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "dl083",
        "Act Number": "Published vide in Delhi Gazette, Extra ordinary Part 4, No. 76, dated 18th Apri1,1988 vide Notification No. F. 9175/87-Home (G)/3, in exercise of the powers conferred under clause 125 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 (Visitors of Prisons) Rules, 1988",
        "Type": "UNION_TERRITORY",
        "Location": "Delhi"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:22"
}