(1) The names of prisoners who are sentenced to solitary confinement shall be duly entered by the Jailor in Register and the entries verified by the Superintendent and this register shall be examined periodically by the jailor on the 1 st day of every month to ascertain that every prisoner is, unless for some sufficient reason he cannot be placed in a cell, undergoing his confinement in due course.
(2) No prisoner shall be placed in solitary confinement until the Medical Officer certifies that he is fit to undergo it.
(3) Prisoners sentenced to solitary confinement shall ordinarily be divided into four gangs, each gang should be placed in cells for a week at a time, so as to utilize the cells to the fullest extent and at the same time comply with the requirements of sections 73 and 74 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (Central Act No. 45 of 1860).
(4) It shall be convenient to fix on the 1st, 8th, 15th and 22nd of each month as the days on which batches shall be committed to solitary confinement.
(5) A prisoner, who is unfit at the time he would have ordinarily confined, shall be placed in a cell at a subsequent date if the conditions imposed by section 74 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (Central Act No. 45 of 1860), allow it.
(6) The execution of a sentence of solitary confinement need not be postponed on account of pendency of an appeal.
(7) Every prisoner undergoing solitary confinement shall be visited daily by the Medical Officer or medical subordinate and the Jailor.
(8) If prior to any period of judicial solitary confinement, a prisoner is declared by the Medical Officer to be unfit to undergo such confinement or if during any period of judicial solitary confinement, it becomes necessary, under the Medical Officer’s orders, to remove a prisoner on the ground of injury to mind or body, the fact shall be reported to the Head of Directorate of Prisons and to the court by which the sentence was passed and shall be recorded in Register.
(9) If a prisoner sentenced to judicial solitary confinement be declared by the Medical Officer to be permanently unfit to undergo such confinement, the matter shall be reported to the court which awarded the sentence and the order of solitary confinement shall not be carried out.