10.. 11.. . Diet of prisoners removed from prison. Rule177. The Inspector-General shall from time to time fix the scale of diet for prisoners removed under these rules. The Officer-in-charge of the escort shall provide and ensure" that each prisoner receives diet in accordance with such scale. When the court is situated in the same station 'where the prisoner is confined, the Superintendent shall supply the prisoners cooked food before sending them to court When the court is situated at a distance, diet, money at the rate of fifty paisas [three rupees] per prisoner per meal shall be, paid to the Police escort by the Superintendent. Money advance for road expenses and railway pass. Rule178. A sum of money, sufficient to meet all expenses together with a railway pass for the tickets required if the journey is to be performed by rail, shall be handed over to the warder incharge or the Officer-in-charge of the escort as the case may be, by the Superintendent of the despatching prison. Different kinds of conveyance by rail. Rule 179. (i) Prisoners may be conveyed in rail in— (a) ordinary third class carriages; or (b) reserved third class compartments. (ii) (a) When the number of prisoners escorted does not exceed, twelve, and they are not desperate characters, they may be conveyed in an ordinary third class carriage. The escort shall sit on each side of the prisoners and guard the doors. (b) Condemned prisoners, lifer prisoners, prisoners of exceptionally dangerous character or when the number of prisoners exceeds twelve shall be conveyed in compartments' with prison fittings subject to availability, otherwise in ordinary, reserved compartments. (iii) Prisoners may also be conveyed in buses provided their number is sufficiently large to justify requisitioning of a bus and they are not of desperate type. Notice of Railway authorities Class of train. Rule180. (i) The Superintendent shall give at least three days notice to the Station Master of the number of persons, both prisoners and guard, for whom reserved accommodation is required and the particular train by which it desired to despatch them. 68