(1) The warrants of all convicts whose release becomes due in any month shall be examined on the 25th day of the month preceding to ascertain their correctness.
(2)When the sentence of a prisoner expires the jailor shall bring him before the Superintendent together with his warrant, and he shall be released in the presence of the Superintendent.
(3) All orders for the final discharge of prisoners are to be signed by the Superintendent of the jail. In cases of release on appeal, payment of fine, furnishing security, giving bail, in which the power of legal detention ceases as soon as the order of the court which should be in English, is delivered at the jail, the Jailor shall release the prisoner on his own responsibility:
Provided that an immediate reference to the Superintendent is, from the distance of the jail or other causes, impracticable.
(4)The warrant of a prisoner released by the Jailor shall be signed by the Superintendent as if the prisoner was released before himself. On receipt of a warrant for the release of a prisoner who has been transferred to another jail, it shall at once be forwarded under a registered cover to the jail in which the prisoner is confined.
(5) Each prisoner shall, before being released, be carefully compared with his personal description in the Admission Register, and the Superintendent or Jailor, as the case may be, shall satisfy himself that the proper prisoner has been brought forward and that his sentence has been duly executed except in respect of remission earned under the remission rules,
(6) The Medical Officer shall record, or cause to be recorded, the health and weight of every prisoner on release in the Admission Register, Release Diary and History Ticket.
(7) Prisoners shall ordinarily be released from the jail in which they are confined at the time of release, but the Government may give special orders directing that prisoners confined in any jail shall be transferred to the jail of the district in which their homes are situated and released there.
(8) No prisoner shall on any account be released after lock-up, warrants for release should not be dispatched, by a court after sunset, or, if so dispatched, should be endorsed with instructions for release as early as possible next morning and ordinarily prisoners shall be released after they have taken of their morning meal, and as soon as sunrise as possible.
(9) All the articles of the kit shall be clean and fit for use, any prisoner who gives up his kit in a dirty state shall be made to wash and clean it before he is released, a convict about to be released shall present himself before the Superintendent in his private clothes and carry in his hand for inspection the kit given to him in his admission to jail or at the last issue of clothing and the clothing and bedding of released prisoners shall be immediately washed up, after which they shall be stored in the clothing godown for reissue in turn, the passing on of kits from released to newly admitted prisoners is prohibited.
(10) If the date of release falls on a Sunday or a prison holiday prescribed in the rule, the prisoner shall be released on the preceding day, but a judgment-debtor entitled to his discharge on the omission by the person, on whose application he has been detained, to pay subsistence allowance must be released on a Sunday if the 1st day of the month falls on that day.
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(11) On releasing a prisoner the Superintendent or the jailor, as the case may be shall deliver to him any property of which he may have been in possession and which is entered on his warrant and an acknowledgement of the receipt of the property will be taken from the prisoner.
(12) If any part of a prisoner’s property is not found and delivered to him, a note of it shall be made in the admission register and the Superintendent shall decide what compensation is to be given to the prisoner and what officer is to be held responsible.