Subject to the provisions of these rules, prisoners’ property shall be dealt with by the jailor in the following manner, namely:-
(a) Such prohibited articles as tobacco, opium, ganja, chillums, intoxicating liquor, drugs etc. shall be destroyed;
(b) Perishable articles such as grain or food, if of any value shall not be received from the escort party accompanying the prisoners except few dry foods, if permitted by the Superintendent;
(c) If the Medical Officer considers that there are sanitary objections to the retention of the clothing of any prisoner, or if a prisoner is suffering on admission from any infectious or contagious disease, the clothing shall, under the written order of the Medical Officer, be destroyed;
(d) If the clothing of a prisoner is ragged and absolutely worthless, it shall be destroyed, and the Superintendent shall enter his order for destroying it opposite the items on the back of the warrant;
(e) The clothing of a prisoner sentenced to rigorous imprisonment or simple imprisonment, shall after being cleansed, etc., be tied in a bundle and stored;
(f) Non-perishable articles capable of storage shall be included in the clothing;
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(g) Every such bundle shall be labelled with the number and name of the prisoner and date of release;
(h) The bundles shall be arranged in the storage godown according to the year of release for subsequent years;
(i) Valuable jewellery shall be folded in a separate sealed paper packet (with signature of the concerned prisoner on the said sealed packet) for each prisoner under-trial prisoner or convict on which shall be inscribed the prisoner’s number, name and date of release and shall be kept in a secured box in the Jailor’s office under lock and key;
(j) The private cash of prisoner shall be kept in the iron chest and the cash of each prisoner exceeding five thousand rupees shall be deposited in the Bank or Post Office in shape of savings bank pass book; and
(k) The Jailor shall keep a record of the amount so deposited and maintain a detailed account of the money belonging to each prisoner in the Prisoner’s Private Cash Register and whenever required for payment to the prisoner on release, the pass book shall be handed over to the prisoner.