sentences are of four months or over shall be entered in release
register according to the check date at the time of admission. For
every such prisoner a date called the check date shall be fixed. This
date shall be the date on which the prisoner will complete twothirds of his sentence. The check date shall be recorded on the
history ticket, warrant and remission sheet and all entries shall be
signed by the Deputy Superintendent.
Management and custody of warrants.
Rule114. The date of sentence and the date of release of a
prisoner and the register number given to him, shall be endorsed on
his warrant and signed by the Deputy Superintendent. The warrants
shall be arranged according to the date of release and put together
in open folds in monthly bundles and docketed outside with the
month and year. Each bundle shall occupy a separate receptacle in
the warrant almirah, of which the Assistant Superintendent
incharge of releases shall keep the key. No prisoner shall be
allowed to have access to the warrants under any circumstances.
Monthly examination of warrants.
Rule 115. The warrants of all prisoner, whose release
becomes due in any month, shall be examined on the 20th day of
the month preceding to ascertain their correctness.
Fixation of final date of release.
Rule 116. The date of release of a prisoner shall be fixed
atleast one month before the check date calculated for him under
Rule 113 after crediting the prisoner with the remissions already
earned and those which he is likely to earn in the interval. After the
date has been checked and approved by the Deputy Superintendent,
the prisoner's name shall be entered in the release register under the
date finally fixed, the Assistant Superintendent incharge of releases
and the Deputy Superintendent shall initial the entries of final date
of release in the release register, remission sheet and the history
ticket.
Prisoner to be informed of his date of release.
Rule117. A prisoner whose final date of release has been
finally fixed shall be informed of the date on which he is to be
released. He shall also be provided with a service post card (if he
wishes) to inform his relatives about the date on which he will be
released.
Prisoner in respect of whom order under section 565, Cr.P.C. is
made to notify their intended residence.
Rule118 (i) Fourteen days before any prisoner, in respect
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