(1) The classification of under-trial prisoners shall be done only on the basis of security, discipline and institutional programme.
(2) No classification on the basis of social status shall be attempted.
(3) The entitlement of diet, clothing, bedding and interview shall be the same as applicable to other categories of prisoners.
(4) Under-trial prisoners shall be classified as mentioned below:- Category–1 Radicalisatist, Naxalite, extremists and terrorists or any other individual characteristics warranting confinement in Security Zone-1.
Category-2 Gangsters, hired Assassins, dacoits, serial killers or rapists or violent robbers, drug offenders, habitual grave offenders or communal fanatics and those highly prone to escapes or previous escapees or attacker on police or prison personnel and other dangerous offenders including those prone to self-harm or posing threat to public order, warranting confinement in Security Zone-2.
Category-3 Those who do not pose any threat to the society, upon release, like those involved in murders on personal motives, other bodily offences, theft or property offences, prohibition offences, offences relating to other special and local laws, railway offences and other minor offences.
Note:
(a) Persons suffering from mental ailments and young offenders shall be lodged separately.
(b) Courts shall send intimation to prison authorities about under trial prisoners who have turned approvers or have made confessions.
(c) An accused person detained under sub-section (2) of section 122 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 must be treated as an under trial prisoner until his case has been decided by the Sessions Court or High Court.