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TypeBare Act JurisdictionCentral Government

Prisons Act, 1894 Chapter VI

Food, Clothing and Bedding of Civil and Unconvicted Criminal Prisoners

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Prisons Act, 1894 Chapter VI is part of Prisons Act, 1894 - Food, Clothing and Bedding of Civil and Unconvicted Criminal Prisoners. Read the section text below and explore Indian court judgments that cite it.

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Section Text

A civil prisoner or an unconvicted criminal prisoner shall be permitted to maintain himself, and to purchase, or receive from private sources at proper hours, food, clothing, bedding or other necessaries, but subject to examination and to such rules as may be approved by the Inspector General.

Section 32 - Restriction on transfer of food and clothing between certain prisoners

No part of any food, clothing, bedding or other necessaries belonging to any civil or unconvicted criminal prisoner shall be given, hired or sold to any other prisoner; and any prisoner transgressing the provisions of this section shall lose the privilege of purchasing food or receiving it from private sources, for such time as the Superintendent thinks proper.

Section 33 - Supply of clothing and bedding to civil and unconvicted criminal prisoners

(1) Every civil prisoner and unconvicted criminal prisoner unable to provide himself with sufficient clothing and bedding shall be supplied by the Superintendent with such clothing and bedding as may be necessary.

(2) When any civil prisoner has been committed to prison in execution of a decree in favour of a private person, such person, or his representative, shall, within forty-eight hours after the receipt by him of a demand in writing, pay to the Superintendent the cost of the clothing and bedding so supplied to the prisoner and in default of such payment the prisoner may be released.

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What does Prisons Act, 1894 Chapter VI provide?

Section Chapter VI of the Prisons Act, 1894 (Food, Clothing and Bedding of Civil and Unconvicted Criminal Prisoners) is reproduced on this page as part of the Prisons Act, 1894. Lawyers and researchers use it to read the statutory wording before checking how courts have applied this section in reported judgments.

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