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Section 727: Duties of Visitors

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

All Visitors, official and non-official, at every visit shall,-

(a) examine the cooked food;

(b) inspect the barracks, wards, work-sheds and other buildings of the prison generally;

(c) ascertain whether considerations of health, cleanliness and security are attended to, whether proper management and discipline is maintained in every respect and whether any prisoner is illegally detained, or is detained for undue length of time while awaiting trial;

(d) examine prison registers and records, except secret records and records pertaining to accounts;

(e) hear and attend to all representation and petitions made by or on behalf of the prisoners;

(f) direct, if deemed advisable, that any such representation or petition be forwarded to the Government; and

(g) Suggest new avenues for improvement in correctional work.

Note: A spare copy of the list of duties of the visitors will be kept at the main gate and handed over to a visitor on the occasion of his visit to the prison. Each nonofficial visitor will be supplied with a copy on his appointment.

Where this provision sits

ActThe Rajasthan Prisons Rules, 2022
Section727
Marginal noteDuties of Visitors
JurisdictionState of Rajasthan
StatusIn force as published by the source

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