The Superintendent shall permit a prisoner, other than a condemned prisoner, to see a prisoner in a hospital outside the prison subject to the following conditions, namely:-
(a) the prisoner in the hospital is a relative and is seriously ill;
(b) the hospital is situated in the same city or town;
(c) the prisoner is sent under adequate escort as the Superintendent decides;
and
(d) the prisoner shall return to the prison immediately after seeing the prisoner in the hospital:
Provided that nothing contained in this rule shall apply to persons detained under preventive detention laws or prisoners who habitually commit offences punishable under sections 224, 376, 392 to 402, 467, 471, 472, 474, 489, 489A, 489B and 489D of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (Central Act No. 45 of 1860) and under the Special Acts who are convicted under the above mentioned sections of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 or persons detained or convicted under any Special Act that the Government may decide, from time to time.