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TypeBare Act JurisdictionCentral Government

Prisons Act, 1894 Chapter IX

Visits to Prisoners

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Prisons Act, 1894 Chapter IX is part of Prisons Act, 1894 - Visits to Prisoners. Read the section text below and explore Indian court judgments that cite it.

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Section Text

Due provision shall be made for the admission, at proper times and under proper restrictions, into every prison of persons with whom civil or unconvicted criminal prisoners may desire to communicate, care being taken that so far as may be consistent with the interests of justice, prisoners under trial may see their duly qualified legal advisers without the presence of any other person.

Section 41 - Search of visitors

(1) The Jailer may demand the name and address of any visitor to a prisoner, and, when the Jailer has any ground for suspicion, may search any visitor, or cause him to be searched, but the search shall not be made in the presence of any prisoner or of another visitor.

(2) In case of any such visitor refusing to permit himself to be searched, the Jailer may deny him admission; and the grounds of such proceeding, with the particulars thereof, shall be entered in such record as the1[State Government] may direct.

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1. Substituted by the A. O.1950, for "Provincial Government".

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