grams of washing powder per week, 140 grams of toilet soap
fortnightly and 60 grams of mustard oil (for those who grow long
hair) per week shall be used by each prisoner. These articles shall
be issued only to those prisoners who cannot afford them].
Routine of prisoners on non-working days:
Rule677. On Friday and holidays prisoners may be permitted
to sit or lie about freely but quietly in the yards of their barracks or
cells. Association will be allowed only amongst the prisoners
usually confined in a particular barrack or yard. Prisoners may play
games permissible under the rules in their own yards in the
afternoons or may take walking exercises.
Games:
Rule 678. Prisoners are allowed to play indoor games such as
carom, ludo and chess inside the barracks. Outdoors games such as
Kabbaddi, wrestling, volleyball and football are also allowed for an
hour in the evenings in the prison playground under proper
supervision, if conditions permit it.
Education:
Rule 679. (i) Education upto primary standard shall be
imparted to all illiterate prisoners daily for at least one hour by
(vi) All prisoners shall be allowed soap and oil for toilet
purposes at their own expense out of their private cash property or
through their friends and relatives.
(vii) A depilatory powder consisting of barium sulphide, one
part, zine oxide, one part and starch, two parts shall be issued to
women prisoners and other prisoners requiring it. Thus should be
made into a paste before use and applied for removal of hair. Blades
shall not be permitted to prisoners.
Smoking of cigarettes:
Rule 683. Prisoners are allowed to smoke cigarettes and biris
at their own expense, but smoking inside the factories or while at
work anywhere is prohibited. Convict officers on duty shall not
smoke. Prisoners are. allowed to keep match boxes. Hookas shall
not be permitted.
Hanger Strikes:
Rule 684. (i) Prisoners who go on hunger stricke shall be
warned that requests for the redress on any alleged grievances shall
not be considered at all so long as the strike continues, that hunger
strike is a major prison offence, that a mass hunger strike amounts
to mutiny and that hunger strikers are liable to be punished either
with a prison punishment or by prosecution under section 52 of the
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