for not more than five days.
No prisoner to be admitted without a proper warrant.
Rule14. No prisoner shall be admitted into any prison
except under a lawful warrant or order of commitment issued by a
competent Court addressed to the Superintendent of Prison.
Identification of prisoners on admission.
Rule15. Before admitting a prisoner, the Assistant
Superintendent incharge of admission shall question him and
ascertain that his name and other particulars correspond with those
entered in his warrant or order and shall give a receipt in the
prescribed form to the Police escort.
Thorough search of prisoners on admission.
Rule16. Every prisoner on admission into a prison shall be
thoroughly searched at the main gate by the gate keeperunder the
supervision of the Assistant Superintendent. All weapons and
prohibited articles found on search shall be taken away from him.
Cash, jewellery, clothing and any private property belonging to
the prisoner, shall also be taken away, entered in the admission
register and stored.
Every prisoner to be given an admission number.
Rule17.(i) Every convicted prisoner will be entered serially
in the admission register. The serial number of this register
pertaining to him will be his admission number and it will be used
alongwith his name and classification in all future reference in
official correspondence about him. The serial numbers will be
allowed to run usually from 1 or 10,000. In certain prisons where
prisoners with admission numbers belonging to the earlier part of
the old series are confined, the numbers may be continued beyond
10,000 to avoid danger of repetition or duplication of numbers.
(ii) Under-trial prisoners will be entered serially in the
admission register of under-trials and this serial number will be
changed on 1st January each year.
Writing-up and Medical Examination of prisoners.
Rule18. Every prisoner shall be written up in
admission register by the Assistant Superintendent incharge of
admissions and shall also be examined by
the [Senior Medical Officer] or the [Medical Officer] within
24 hours of his ' admission into the prison. The Senior
Medical Officer or Medical Officer shall examine every prisoner
and enter in the admission register, the age, height, weight and the
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