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TypeBare Act JurisdictionCentral Government

Prisons Act, 1894 Section 41

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Prisons Act, 1894 Section 41 is part of Prisons Act, 1894 - Search of Visitors. Read the section text below and explore Indian court judgments that cite it.

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Section Text

(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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