Section 184: Identification through registered number
The Rajasthan Prisons Rules, 2022State Rules of Rajasthan · 1894
(1) The register number shall be the means of identifying the prisoner.
(2) A fresh number shall be given on every transfer to another prison.
(3) The articles of clothing and bedding of each prisoner sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for life shall be marked with his number and in all official communications the number shall precede the name.
(4) If a prisoner has to undergo two or more sentences under different warrants, it shall not be necessary to re-enter his name in the convict register on the expiry of one sentence or to give him another number.
(5) However, every prisoner shall be called by his name and not by his number in the register.