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Section 523: Search of the visitors

The Rajasthan Prisons Rules, 2022State Rules of Rajasthan · 1894

(1) The Jailor may demand the identity, name and address of any visitor to a prisoner, and, if he has good grounds for suspecting that any visitor is taking prohibited articles to a prisoner he may search the visitor or cause him or her to be searched before he or she is allowed to enter the Jail or see a prisoner but the search shall not be made in the presence of any prisoner or any other visitor.

(2) If the visitor is a female, the search shall be made only by a female staff.

(3) In case of such visitor refusing to be searched, the Jailor may refuse to allow any interview with a prisoner.

(4) In any case when a visitor is searched or an interview with an under-trial prisoner is refused, the jailor shall at once note the circumstances and the grounds for his action in his report book, and submit his report to the Superintendent at once.

Where this provision sits

ActThe Rajasthan Prisons Rules, 2022
Section523
Marginal noteSearch of the visitors
JurisdictionState of Rajasthan
StatusIn force as published by the source

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