(1) All prisoners, before being removed to any other prison, shall be examined by the Medical Officer/Female Officer, as the case may be.
(2) No prisoner shall be removed from one prison to another unless the Medical Officer/Female Medical Officer certifies that the prisoner is free from any illness rendering him unfit for removal.
(3) No prisoner shall be discharged against his will from prison, if labouring under any acute of dangerous distemper, nor until, in the opinion of the Medical Officer/Female Medical Officer, such discharge is safe.
(4) The Superintendent may seek orders, as soon as possible, from the court of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate regarding further detention of a prisoner whose release orders have been received in local cases and against whom a production warrant from an outside court has been received by the Superintendent.
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CHAPER V DISCIPLINE OF PRISONERS Responsibilit y of Superintende nt
27. The discipline in the prison shall be maintained by the Superintendent firmly, fairly and in an equitable manner in accordance with the rules.
Separation of Prisoners
28. The requisitions of this Act with respect to the separation of prisoners are as follows :
(1) in a prison containing female as well as male prisoners, the females shall be imprisoned in separate buildings, or separate parts of the same building, in such manner as to prevent their seeing, or conversing with the male prisoners;
(2) female prisoners convicted or charged for an offence under the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956 (104 of 1956) for any sexual or other offence involving grave moral depravity, shall be segregated from all other types of female prisoners.
(3) in a prison where male prisoners under the age of twenty-one are confined, means shall be provided for separating them altogether from the other prisoners; and for separating those of them who have arrived at the age of sixteen years but are below the age of eighteen years;
(4) unconvicted criminal prisoners shall be kept apart from convicted criminal prisoners;
(5) civil prisoners shall be kept apart from criminal prisoners.
(6) dangerous/security prisoners shall be kept separately; and
(7) detenus shall be kept apart.
(8) all blood relation prisoner, separated on grounds of different sex, shall be allowed to meet each other once a week in presence of a jail officer.
Association and segregation of prisoners
29. Subject to the requirements of the last foregoing section, criminal prisoners may be confined either in association or individually in cells or partly in one way and partly in the other.
Prisoners under sentence of death