(1) For award of all types of punishment the prisoner shall be given opportunity for personal hearing.
(2) The punishment awarded shall be entered in the History Ticket of the concerned prisoner and also in the punishment register.
(3) Infringement of any of the provisions of these rules shall be brought to the notice of the Superintendent, who shall decide whether the infringement reported as committed in such circumstances is willfully or without excuse, as to constitute an offence.
(4) If the Superintendent is of opinion that the infringement of rule was committed through ignorance or excusable carelessness, he shall admonish the prisoner and dismiss the charge without recording it in the Punishment Register, but if he finds it to be an offence, he shall award some punishment and have it recorded in Form as specified giving all details required by rule and likewise on the prisoner’s History Ticket.
(5) “Change of labour” which is a minor punishment can be awarded only to prisoners undergoing imprisonment and is a punishment suitable for persistent short work or idleness, but may be given also for other offences and it may only be given for a definite time.
(6) Petty offences, such as short work, are unless frequently repeated, in the case of prisoners coming under the remission system, loss of remission may be adequate punishment and this punishment shall be used for minor offences in preference to all others as long as the prisoner has any remission to his credit.
(7) A “formal warning” is deemed to be a punishment and shall be personally addressed to the offender by the Superintendent and in every exceptional case the punishment for a first offence shall be a “formal warning”.
(8) A formal warning shall not be combined with any other punishment.
(9) Forfeiture of prison privileges under the remission system includes any of the special privileges allowed to convict overseers and convict watchmen by these rules and one or more of these privileges may be suspended.
(10) While awarding punishments stated in sub-rule (9) or reduction of grade which has been indicated as minor punishments in clause (c) and (d) of sub-rule (2) of rule 482 and major punishment as mentioned in clause (e) of sub-rule (3) of rule 482, the superintendent shall record whether it is to be permanent or for what period.
(11) Whenever application is made to the Head of Directorate of Prisons for sanction to the forfeiture of remission exceeding twelve days, or for the exclusion of a prisoner from the remission system for a period exceeding three months, full particulars of the offence भाग 4 (ग) राजस्ााू राज-पत्र दिसम् बर 12 2022 596 and of the remission the prisoner has earned and brief statement of his previous history, accompanied by his descriptive roll, shall be submitted.