the receipt of the prisoners and, of the documents and property
relating to them. One copy should be made over to the Police
and the other sent to the dispatching prison. Identical articles
of clothing and other Government property sent with the
prisoners shall be returned to the dispatching prison.
Note. Fetters actually received with the prisoners need
not be returned, but an equivalent number of these articles in
good condition and upto standard should be returned instead
Procedure when property is retained by receiving prison.
Rule191. If it is necessary to retain any of the property in
the receiving prison, a report of the fact shall be made to the
Superintendent of the transferring prison. Property so retained
must be accounted for in the registers of both the prisons and in
the indents for such articles subsequently submitted.
Procedure when property is missing.
Rule192. If it be found on the arrival of the prisoners a
their destination that the property received does no: correspond
with the lists, immediate notice of the fact shall be given to the
Superintendent of the transferring prison, who shall institute an
enquiry in the matter.
Illness of a prisoner on transfer Ultimate disposal.
Rule193. When a prisoner on transfer becomes ill as to be
unable to complete the journey, he should be left at the nearest
Police Station and taken when sufficiently well to be moved, to the
nearest prison where he shall be received. His warrant, property
and all papers connected with him should be made over to the
Superintendent of the prison, where he is detained who shall inform
the Superintendent of the prisons from and to which the prisoner
was proceeding, of the occurrence. On recovery the prisoner shall
be forwarded with his papers, etc., to his destination. In the case of
death, the fact, with date, shall be noted on his warrant, which with
the other papers and property accompanying him shall be returned
to the prison from whence he came.
Death of a prisoner before he can be received in any prison.
Rule194. If a prisoner dies on transfer and before he can be
received in any prison en route, the Officer incharge of the police
escort should report the fact to the [Sessions Judge or the nearest
Magistrate] as the case may be, in which the death takes place, with
a view to an enquiry being held into the circumstances attending it.
A copy of the proceedings, together with the warrant, documents
and property accompanying the prisoner, should be forwarded to
the Superintendent of the prison from where he came. Such
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