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Section 381: Jailor shall be the custodian of money and properties

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

(1) All money or other articles in respect whereof no order of a competent court has been made, and which may with proper authority be brought into the prison by any prisoner or sent to the prison for his use, shall be placed with the custody of the Jailor.

(2) A list of all property of a prisoner taken from him under the rule or delivered with him, or afterwards received on his account, shall, in the case of a civil or convicted prisoner, be endorsed on his warrant and signed by the Superintendent and jailor, in the case of an under trial prisoner the property shall be entered in the Prisoners’ Property Register of under trial prisoners.

(3) Registered and insured articles, addressed to prisoners in jail, shall be delivered by the authorities of the Postal Department to the jailor on his signing the receipts or acknowledgments.

(4) Money orders for prisoners shall be paid to them in the presence of the Jailor on his attesting their signature or mark on the money order form.

(5) The Jailor shall thus be in a position to keep the money or other articles received for prisoners by post, in his custody, as required by section 25 of the Prisons Act, 1894 (Central Act No. 9 of 1984).

(6) Any property or money belonging to a prisoner may at any time during his imprisonment be delivered to his friends, with the approval of the Superintendent under an authority signed by the prisoner, but no prisoner shall be allowed to make over any of his clothing if he will thereby on his discharge leave himself with insufficient clothing, and no prisoner shall be permitted to make over any of his property to any other prisoner either during imprisonment or on release.

Where this provision sits

ActThe Rajasthan Prisons Rules, 2022
Section381
Marginal noteJailor shall be the custodian of money and properties
JurisdictionState of Rajasthan
StatusIn force as published by the source

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