(1) If a prisoner desires to appeal and declares that he has no relative, friend or agent who is willing to make an appeal for him, the Superintendent shall forthwith apply in the Form as specified to the concerned court for a copy of the judgment or order relating to such prisoner from which he desires to appeal.
(2) On receipt of a copy of judgment or order, the prisoner shall, if he is able to write, be allowed to write his own appeal and if the prisoner is not able to write, the Superintendent shall cause his appeal to be written for him by another prisoner or by a jail officer.
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(3) If the copy of judgment is not received within seven days the Superintendent shall send a reminder for it in the specified Form and if there is any excessive delay shall report the matter to the Head of Directorate of Prisons.
(4) The Superintendent may download a copy of judgment from the website of the concerned court.
(5) A prisoner or officer deputed to write an appeal shall do so at the appellant’s dictation and shall neither make any suggestion to the prisoner as to what shall be stated, nor add anything to what the prisoner himself desires to have stated in the appeal.
(6) The Superintendent shall forward the appeal without delay with the copy of the judgment or order appealed from to the appellate court.
(7) If, after the receipt of the copy of the judgment or order, a relative, friend or agent of the prisoner undertakes to make the appeal on his behalf and the prisoner consents to that course, the copy of the judgment shall be delivered to such relative, friend or agent, as the case may be.
(8) If several prisoners sentenced in the same case, desire to file petition at one time to the same court, one copy of the judgment will suffice for all.
(9) But it must be noted that orders issued on the appeal of one prisoner do not necessarily apply to others who were sentenced in the same case and who appealed along with such prisoner.