(1) Following acts of the prisoners shall constitute prison offences, namely:-
(a) endangering the security of the prison in any way, by willful or negligent act and shall include tampering in any way with prison walls, building, bars, locks and keys, lamps or light or with any other security and custody measure;
(b) doing any act calculated to create unnecessary alarm in the minds of other prisoners;
(c) doing or omitting to do any act with intent to cause to oneself any illness, injury or disability;
(d) omitting to report the commission of any prison offence;
(e) breaking law and order and prison discipline;
(f) planning, instigating and abetting, directly or indirectly, the commission of any prison offence;
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(g) refusing, omitting to abide by standards of behaviour, rules and regulations and lawful instructions and orders;
(h) failing to assist in the maintenance of prison discipline;
(i) failing to give assistance to a prison official when called to do so;
(j) making false, malicious and groundless, written or verbal, complaints against prison officials;
(k) committing nuisance or mischief of any sort;
(l) quarrelling with other prisoners;
(m) smoking;
(n) attacking, assaulting, and causing injuries to others;
(o) participating in a riot or mutiny, abetting another prisoner to do the same;
(p) escaping or attempting to escape from prison or legal custody or failing to report to prison officials about attempted escapes;
(q) possessing, hiding, smuggling, attempting to smuggle, obtaining, giving or receiving and bartering contraband articles;
(r) failing to report to prison officials about contraband articles;
(s) stealing or damaging or destroying or disfiguring misappropriating any government property or another prisoners' articles and property;
(t) failing to report at once any loss, breakage or injury, which the prisoner may accidentally have caused, to prison property or implements;
(u) tampering with or defacing identity cards, records or documents;
(v) breach of the conditions of leave and emergency release;
(w) refusing to eat food or going on a hunger-strike;
(x) eating or apportioning any food not assigned to him or taking from or adding to the portions assigned to another prisoner;
(y) willfully or negligently destroying or spoiling food, or throwing it away without orders;
(z) introducing into food or drink anything likely to render it unpalatable, unwholesome, or dangerous for human consumption;
(za) cooking unauthorisedly;
(zb) violating rules and regulations framed for the systematic running of the canteen;
(zc) bartering canteen articles;
(zd) being idle, careless or negligent at work, refusing to work, malingering, disturbing other prisoners at work, or in barracks;
(ze) manufacturing any article without the knowledge or permission of a prison officer;
(zf) performing any portion of the task allotted to another prisoner or obtaining unauthorised assistance of another prisoner in the performance of one's own task;
(zg) apportioning to any prisoner any part of the task to be performed by him or her.
(zh) mixing or adding a foreign substance to the materials issued for work;
(zi) willfully disabling himself from labour;
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(zj) converting or attempting to convert, a prisoner to a different religious faith;
(zk) willfully hurting other's religious feelings, beliefs and faiths;
(zl) agitating or acting on the basis of caste or religious prejudices;
(zm) having any communication, in writing or by word or by signs, without permission, with any outsider, an under trial prisoner, detenus, civil prisoners, and approvers;
(zn) sending messages surreptitiously by writing or verbally;
(zo) participating in, or organising, unauthorised activities like gambling and betting;
(zp) using indecent, abusive, insolent, threatening or improper language, being disrespectful, making indecent or vulgar acts or gestures;
(zq) soiling or befouling any place or article;
(zr) loitering or lingering, leaving the appointed area or work- group without permission;
(zs) failing to assist, or preventing another person from assisting, prison officials in suppressing violence, assault, riot, mutiny, attack, gross personal violence or any other emergencies;
(zt) talking when at file, or at unlocking or at latrine, bathing or other parade or at any time when ordered by an officer or the prison to desist, and singing, loud laughing and loud talking any time;
(zu) showing disrespect to any Jail Officer or Visitor; or
(zv) answering untruthfully any question put by an officer of the prison or a visitor.
(2) Such other acts, as the Government may specify by notification in the Official Gazette, from time to time, to constitute prison offence.