Rule552. The Superintendent shall fix the days and hours at which all interviews shall be allowed and no interview shall be permitted on any other day, or at any other time except with the special permission of the Superintendent. A notice specifying the days and hours for interviews shall be posted outside the prison. Ordinarily interviews should be taken place on working days. No interview should be allowed on Sunday and gazetted holidays except with the special permission of the Superintendent. Explanation l.—lf the number of interviews is large at any prison, request for interviews should be recorded twice daily i.e., in the morning and at afternoon. Explanation 2,--Presents of cooked food, sweets and fruits from relatives and friends of prisoners may be permitted to prisoners on Eid-ul-Fitr and Eid-ul-Azha. Place of interview: Rule553. Every interview shall take place in a special part of the prison set apart for the purpose, if possible at are near the main gate subject to the following conditions:(i) If a prisoner is seriously ill, the Superintendent may permit the interview to take place in the prison hospital; (ii) a condemned prisoner shall ordinarily be interviewed in his cell; and (iii) the Superintendent may, for special reasons to be recorded in writing, permit an interview to take place in any part of the prison. Number of persons at an interview: Rule554. Not more than six adults shall be allowed to interview a prisoner, at one interview. At the last interview of a condemned prisoner, not more than fifty adults in five batches of ten each, shall be allowed to interviews the condemned prisoner. The Superintendent may exceed this limit of the occasion warrants it and is not likely to interfere with arrangementsfor execution the following day Persons granted an interview may be searched: Rule555. Every person desiring to have an interview with a prisoner shall, give his name and address and submit to be searched it such interview is to take place inside the prison. The search shall not be made in the presence of any prisoner or any other person except the officers of the prison, and in case of a Women visitor, the. search shall be conducted by a Women warder. If the visitorrefuses to be searched or to give his name and address, he shall not be permitted to enter the prison or to interview any prisoner and the fact shall be recorded by the Deputy Superintendent in his report book. 191

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