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.
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