At the time of admission, prisoners shall be asked to obey the rules and their duties shall be explained to them as mentioned below:-
(a) Obey the orders of all officers of prison (including clerks, medical and technical staff) and convict officers;
(b) Remain strictly with their groups and within the part of the prison in which they are confined, unless ordered by proper authority to leave it;
(c) Abstain from talking when in a file at unlocking or at toilet and bathing or other parades, or at any time when ordered by an officer of the prison to desist; also abstain from abusing, singing, quarrelling, laughing loudly, talking loudly and showing indecent behaviour at any time ;
(d) Not hold any communication with outsiders, women, civil or under-trial prisoners or prisoners of a class different from their own, or with the guards, beyond what is absolutely necessary;
(e) Not to receive or possess ganja or other drugs, money or jewellery, or any article of food or clothing prohibited by the rules, books, papers, writing materials of any description, rope, knife, or other implement (except during working hours and when the implement is required for work);
(f) When they find any of the articles mentioned in clause (e) in the prison or know of any other prisoner having possession of any such articles, they shall report the matter to the Jailor or Warder;
(g) Report any plot or conspiracy, and any attempt to escape, or any planned attack upon any prisoner or officer of the prison or any person in outside;
(h) Help the officers of prison in the event of any attack upon them;
(i) Keep their clothes, blankets, beddings, and utensils clean and in proper order;
(j) Keep their persons clean;
(k) Perform their assigned tasks willingly and carefully and take proper care of any property of Government entrusted to them for any purpose;
(l) Be orderly in their behaviour; march when moving about the prison; when addressing or being addressed by an officer of the prison or visitor stand at attention with their hands down; and salute when ordered;
(m) Not to remove provisions from the kitchen or food servicing platforms without authority, or conceal any article of food in the wards or cells;
(n) Not to remove any unconsumed food from the place where the meal is taken;
(o) Stick to the bed, ward, yard, and the seat assigned to them while at meals or at work;
(p) Not to loiter about the yards, or in the wards, after the doors have been opened, or bath or visit the toilet beyond the specified hours;
(q) Not to commit any nuisance or urinate in any part of the prison which has not been assigned for that purpose, or spoil any part of the prison or any article in the prison in any way;
(r) Show respect to all officers;
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(s) Not to strike, assault or threaten any officer or prisoner;
(t) Not to gamble or barter within the prison, nor keep animals, birds or other pets;
(u) Wear the clothing given to them and not to exchange clothing or any part of their prison kit, with any other prisoner; and
(v) Not to undertake any agitation, organized protest or hunger strike.
CHAPTER XIX GUARDING AND SAFE CUSTODY OF PRISONERS (Routine of the day and night)