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Section 720: Travelling assistance to prisoners on release

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

(1) Every convict prisoner whose home is situated more than ten kilometers from the prison which he or she is to be released and who is not in possession of sufficient money for travel, shall at the time of his or her release be provided with the fare for the normal route to his or her home using the cheapest mode of transport available e.g. bus, railway or other modes of transportation.

(2) Released prisoners, who are certified by the Medical Officer to be unfit to travel on foot owing to illness or physical infirmity, shall be furnished with suitable mode of transportation for the journey they shall have to perform by road.

(3) Any female prisoner who is a resident of another district that in which she is confined, shall be transferred, at least one month before her release is due, to the prison of her own district for release and when the home of a female prisoner, about to be released, is at any distance from the prison and no relatives appear to receive her, she shall be sent to her home accompanied by a female warder.

(4) On the death of a prisoner, or his release upon the expiry of his sentence or on bail, his warrant shall be returned to the court which issued it, with an endorsement showing the date of death, or date and cause of release and the date on which the warrant is returned.

(5) If any prisoner is required to undergo two or more sentences under separate warrants, such warrants shall be returned when the combined sentences have been executed.

Where this provision sits

ActThe Rajasthan Prisons Rules, 2022
Section720
Marginal noteTravelling assistance to prisoners on release
JurisdictionState of Rajasthan
StatusIn force as published by the source

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