to loss owing to vacant seats.
Police Department to defray conveyance of under-trial
prisoners.
Rule183. The Police Department shall defray all charges of
every kind relating to the conveyance of all under-trials to and from
courts.
Classes to be kept separate on transfer.
Rule184. Women prisoners shall, when on transfer, be kept
completely apart from male prisoners and male juveniles from adult
males. Further separation of the various classes should be carried
out as far as practicable.
Conveyance to prisoners travelling by road.
Rule185. (i) Prisoners who have to travel by road, on
transfer shall be provided with conveyance or conveyance
allowance. Carriage hire will not, however, be allowed when the
distance does not exceed one mile.
(ii) Women prisoners shall be provided with a suitable
conveyance and shall travel during day time. A woman warder
should invariably accompany them on transfer.
(iii) Condemned prisoners shall be moved to and from a
railway station in Police lorries, where Police lorries are not
available, they shall be conveyed in some other suitable
conveyance.
Prisoners to be searched before transfer. Receipt to be taken.
Rule186. (i) Before transfer the prisoners shall be paraded
inside the prison, and the Deputy Superintendent shall satisfy
himself that all the prisoners have sufficient clothing and are
properly dressed.
(ii) Prisoners shall ordinarily wear their own clothes while
on transfer. Those who have-no clothes of their own, or whose
clothes have been disposed of otherwise, shall wear prison clothes.
(iii) They shall be carefully searched in the presence of
the Assistant Superintendent incharge of transfers and of the
Officer-in-charge of the Police escort, from whom a receipt shall
be taken for the prisoners property and documents handed over
to him. They must thoroughly satisfy themselves that the letters
are securely riveted and the ankle ring do not come off the heels,
if the prisoners are fettered.
Warder to accompany prisoners on transfer.
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