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Section 263: Restriction on entry in the enclosure of female prisoners

The Rajasthan Prisons Rules, 2022State Rules of Rajasthan · 1894

(1) No male officer of the jail shall on any pretext enter the female prisoners enclosure alone or unless he has a duty to attend to there.

(2) If a male officer has to attend to any duty in the females’ enclosure and there is a female warder, he may enter the females’ enclosure in her company and shall be accompanied by her to whatever part of the female jail he may have to go.

(3) If the matron is a convict, he shall be accompanied by a head warder and the two shall not separate whilst in the females’ enclosure at night, the head warder on duty shall call the Jailor, and these two officers together shall enter the enclosure.

(4) Warders acting as escorts to jail officers or visitors must remain outside the enclosure while it is being inspected.

Where this provision sits

ActThe Rajasthan Prisons Rules, 2022
Section263
Marginal noteRestriction on entry in the enclosure of female prisoners
JurisdictionState of Rajasthan
StatusIn force as published by the source

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