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Section 42: Penalty for introduction or removal of prohibited articles into or from prison and communication with prisoners.

The Prisons Act, 1894Central Act · Act 9 of 1894

Whoever, contrary to any rule under section [59] introduces or removes or attempts by any means whatever to introduce or remove, into or from any prison, or supplies or attempts to supply to any prisoner outside the limits of a prison, any prohibited article,

and every officer of a prison who, contrary to any such rule, knowingly suffers any such article to be introduced into or removed from any prison, to be possessed by any prisoner, or to be supplied to any prisoner outside the limits of a prison,

and whoever, contrary to any such rule, communicates or attempts to communicate with any prisoner,

and whoever abets any offence made punishable by this section,

shall, on conviction before a Magistrate, be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, or to fine not exceeding two hundred rupees, or to both.

Where this provision sits

ActThe Prisons Act, 1894
Section42
Marginal notePenalty for introduction or removal of prohibited articles into or from prison and communication with prisoners.
JurisdictionCentral
StatusIn force as published by the source
Judgments citing it2

How this provision has been amended

Taken from the footnotes printed with the provision by the source. Where a footnote names the amending instrument, it is quoted as printed.

  • substituted. Subs. by the A. O, 1937, for "60".

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