officers shall enter together. Warders acting as escorts to visitors
or officials shall remain outside the enclosure.
Search of women prisoners.
Rule315. Women prisoners shall be searched by a women
warder and the search should not be carried out in the presence of a
male officer. In the main gate a separate room should be reserved
for the search of women prisoners,
Certain ornaments may be allowed to women prisoners.
Rule316. (i) Women prisoners may be allowed to retain, in
moderation, certain ornaments of small value such as a ring, a nosenail and bangles (glass or silver). Superintendent may, however, at
his discretion, refuse to allow the retention of ornaments in any
particular case for disciplinary reasons.
(ii) Women prisoners shall be responsible for the safe
custody or such articles which should be entered on their history
tickets and initialed by the Deputy Superintendent.
(iii) Women prisoners may be permitted to replace churis l
at their own expense.
Amenities for women prisoners.
Rule317. (i) Women prisoners shall be supplied with a
comb for their hair. They shall be given one chatak of soap and one
chatak of mustard oil per prisoner every week for washing and
dressing their hair. They shall also be allowed the use of a looking
glass, one or two such glasses should be fixed in the wall in each
ward. Sanitary toilets and bath rooms shall be provided in the
women's ward.
(ii) Every women prisoner shall be provided with a cot, a
mattress and a pillow.
Supply of food'.
Rule318. Cooked food shall be brought to the women's
enclosure by a reliable convicted prisoner accompanied by a
warder and placed outside the enclosure gate from where it shall be
taken inside by the woman warder or an elderly woman prisoner.
Cleanliness of women's enclosure.
Rule319. Women prisoners shall attend to the cleanliness
of their enclosures. Conservancy work shall be done by paid
sweepers. Sweepers so admitted shall not be permitted to go out of
sight of the women warder or hold any communication by word or
gesture with the women.
Keys of women's enclosure. Lock of main entrance.
Rule320. (i) The keys of the various locks in use in the
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