(1) Every newly convicted prisoner shall be allowed reasonable facilities for seeing or communicating with his relatives or friends with a view to the preparation of an appeal or to the procuring of bail and shall also be allowed to have interviews or write letters to his friends once or twice fortnightly, or oftener, if the Superintendent considers it necessary, to enable him to arrange for the management of his property or other family affairs.
(2) Every prisoner committed to prison in default of payment of a fine or of finding security under Chapter VIII of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 shall be allowed to communicate by letter and to have interviews at any reasonable time with his relatives or friends for the purpose of arranging for the payment of the fine or for furnishing of security.
(3) Every prisoner under sentence of death shall be allowed such interviews and other communications with his relatives, friends and legal advisers as the Superintendent thinks reasonable.
Note-1: Section 40 of the Prisons Act, 1894, requires that due provision shall be made for the admission into a jail of persons with whom civil or under-trial prisoners may desire to communicate, care being taken that so far as may be consistent with the interests of justice under-trial prisoners may see their legal advisers without the presence of any other person.
609 राजस्ााू राज-पत्र दिसम् बर 12 2022 भाग 4 (ग) Note-2: Under section 41, the Jailor may demand the name and address of any visitor to a prisoner, and may search any visitor if he has any ground for suspicion. The Jailor may deny admission to any visitor who refuses to permit himself to be searched, entering the grounds of his action in such record as the Government may direct.
Note-3: Interviews with Political prisoners are not governed by the rules contained in this chapter but by separate confidential instruction issued by Government for their treatment.