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Feb 12 1969 (HC)

Sitaram Barelal Vs. State of Madhya Pradesh

Court : Madhya Pradesh

Reported in : AIR1969MP252; 1969MPLJ539

..... state government for his conditional release on probation under section 2 ibid, is wholly illegal. on a reading of section 3 of the transfer of prisoners act, it would appear that the transfer of the petitioner by the state government of maharashtra to the central jail, jabalpur, with the sanction of the madhya pradesh government, did ..... other state', appearing in section 29(1)(d) were, consequently, omitted by section 4 thereof, inasmuch as the transfer of prisoners act (act no. xxix of 1950) was now an all pervading measure providing for transfer of prisoners between the different states in india. it extends to the whole of india except the state of jammu and kashmir. ..... as envisaged by the impugned circular? and (2) whether the superintendent of the central jail, jabalpur has a right under section 3(1) of the transfer of prisoners act, 1950 to detain the petitioner until he serves out his sentence of imprisonment for life, despite the order of the state government of madhya pradesh for .....

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Aug 28 1985 (HC)

Vijay Kumar and ors. Vs. Delhi Administration and ors.

Court : Delhi

Reported in : 1985(9)DRJ261; 1985RLR556

..... the petitioners who were then adolescent offenders. it may be, as stated in the petition, that the petitioners were transferred to the borstal school at faridkot in exercise of the powers under section 3 of the transfer of prisoners act, 1950. (20) we may notice here that ram kumar and karamvir singh had by a petition (criminal misc. ..... the orders of the delhi administration under section 3 of the transfer of prisoners act, 1950 they were transferred to punjab and haryana and that the delhi administration by exercising the powers of the district magistrate under section 6 or section 8 of the punjab borstal act as applicable to the union territory of delhi, had detained the ..... no. 157 of 1983) challenged the legality and validity of their transfer to the borstal jail at faridkot. notice of that petition was .....

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May 19 1997 (HC)

Lakhvinder Singh Vs. State of Punjab and ors.

Court : Punjab and Haryana

Reported in : 1998CriLJ942

..... singh v. state of punjab, 1987 (1) recent cri r 51. herein the accused was punished by the himachal pradesh high court. under the transfer of prisoners act, 1950 he was transferred to punjab. it was held that the appropriate government would be the government of himachal pradesh. keeping in view all the precedents quoted above, irresistable ..... not have the power to make law for a person convicted by the court at bangalore. he is being detained in punjab because of the provisions of transfer of prisoners act, 1950. the executive power of the government of karnataka extends to him. the petitioner is undergoing sentence in pursuance of the order passed by the court ..... case state of m.p. v. ajit singh air 1976 sc 1855 : 1976 cri lj 1396. herein also the prisoner had been transferred under the transfer of prisoners act, 1950 from gwalior to punjab. the request of the prisoner for his release was rejected by the madhya pradesh government. he had filed a writ petition in this. court which was .....

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Apr 01 1976 (HC)

Jhanda Singh Vs. the State of Punjab and anr.

Court : Punjab and Haryana

Reported in : AIR1976P& H358

..... is discharged or removed in due course of law.14. as would be clear from the provisions of sub-section (2) of section 3 of the prisoners act, the transferred prisoner has to be detained subject to the writ, warrant or order of the court by which he has been committed. in other words, the writ, warrant ..... the opinion for the bench in sita rams case (air 1969 madh pra 252) (supra):--'or a reading of section 3 of the transfer of prisoners act, it would appear that the transfer of the petitioner by the state government of maharashtra to the central jail. jabalpur, with the sanction of the madhya pradesh government, did ..... the parliament enacted criminal procedure code as also the transfer of prisoners act, 1950. the prisoners act provided for the transfers of prisoners of one state to the prison of another state with the letter's consent, and sub-section (2) of section 3 of the prisoners act authorises the officer-in-charge of the prison to which the prisoner is removed under sub-section (1) .....

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Jan 08 2024 (SC)

Bilkis Yakub Rasool Vs. Union Of India

Court : Supreme Court of India

..... section 401 of the code of criminal procedure is the government of the state where the prisoner has been convicted and sentenced, that is to say, the transferor state and not the transferee state where the prisoner may have been transferred at his instance under the transfer of prisoners act; and (4) that where the transferee state feels that the accused has completed a period of ..... 20 years it has merely to forward the request of the prisoner to the concerned state government, that is to say, the government of .....

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Apr 11 1996 (HC)

M.T. Khan Vs. the Government of Andhra Pradesh and ors.

Court : Andhra Pradesh

Reported in : 1996(4)ALD346; 1996(2)ALT97; 1997CriLJ1962

..... comprehends the power to pass orders granting remissions in respect of the excepted category in question and there is no impediment in this regard either in the transfer of prisoners act, 1950 or in any other enactment. 5. opposing the prayer for the release of the two convicts in question, it is urged by sri chalameshwar, ..... due course of law' occurring in the second limb of sub-section (2) of section 3 of the transfer of prisoners act, 1950, the division bench also held (at p. 256 of air) : '...... detention of a prisoner is governed not only by the relevant rules and regulations in the jail manual of the particular state where he ..... 1) of section 29 of the transfer of prisoners act, 1950. rule 2 of the above order entitled madhya pradesh prisons (removal of the prisoners confined in prison) orders, 1968, lays down that the transfer of a prisoner has to be effected by the inspector-general of prisons who should pass formal orders sanctioning the transfer while at the same time notifying in .....

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Mar 02 1983 (HC)

Narayanan Kutty Vs. State

Court : Kerala

Reported in : 1984CriLJ58

..... of the matter had not been examined at all in that case. the question is whether any such power could be exercised under the provisions of the transfer of prisoners act at all. we are not going into the question further because of the later pronouncement of the supreme court on this question in the decisions adverted to ..... of the cr. p. c. that are made available to him by that state. under the 'transfer of prisoners act the prisoners convicted in courts in a state may be transferred to another state. we are concerned in these cases with prisoners so transferred.11. the claim for premature release in the kerala state depends on ' recommendation of the advisory ..... . the question that arose in that case was whether the madhya pradesh government could release under this provision a prisoner who had been transferred in exercise of the power under section 3 (1) of the transfer of prisoners act 29 of 1950 from the maharashtra state. he was convicted and sentenced in the court of maharashtra and for .....

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Jul 31 2015 (HC)

Sanjay Gope Vs. The State of Jharkhand and Anr

Court : Jharkhand

..... the prisoners act, the prior permission of the court concerned is mandatory.8. apparently ..... within the description given under section 5 29 of the said act. the petitioner in the present case is an undertrial prisoner, who could not have been transferred in terms of the order of the inspector general of prisons under section 29 of the prisoners act or by the respondent no.2. even before removal of prisoners, who come under the four corners of section 29 of .....

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Nov 07 1990 (HC)

Hyderkhan Lalkhan Pathan Vs. State of Gujarat and ors.

Court : Gujarat

Reported in : (1992)1GLR61

..... while passing the order and the petitioner was not allowed to be represented by a lawyer.9. section 3 of the transfer of prisoners act, 1950 provides that where any person is confined in a prison in a state, the government of that state may, with the consent of the government of any other state, may by an order provide for the removal of ..... been transferred. the appropriate government, as defined in section 402 of criminal procedure code, will be an authority to order premature release of such prisoners under section 401 of criminal procedure code.10. as far as the prison offences are concerned the authority competent to punish the prison offender is the superintendent of prison as per sections 46, 48a and 52 of the prisons act and the inspector general of prisons is .....

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May 10 1963 (SC)

Hazara Singh Gill Vs. the State of Punjab

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1965SC720; [1964]4SCR1

..... upheld by the high court. he was also convicted in a case under the prisons act and sentenced to six months' rigorous imprisonment, which sentence was also confirmed by the high court. these sentences are to run consecutively. the two cases in which the transfer is asked for are now pending and they have been referred to the magistrate ..... two criminal cases (nos. 33/3 and 33/4 of 1963) under section 52 of the prisons act, pending for trial in the court of mr. sant singh, magistrate, first class, amritsar. the petitioner requests that these cases be transferred outside the state of punjab for disposal. the facts, in so far as they have been admitted by the ..... by the superintendent, jail, amritsar. the petitioner points out that another petition of s. mohan singh tur was transferred from the punjab to saharanpur by this court. 2. what is not admitted or evasively denied in the affidavit of the state government are the following facts stated .....

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