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Section 2: Definition

Rajasthan Prisons (Shortening of Sentences) Rules, 2006State Rules of Rajasthan · 1894

In these rules unless the context otherwise requires;

(a) "Act" means the Prisons Act, 1894 (Central Act IX of 1894);

(b) "Government" means the Government of Rajasthan;

(c) "habitual criminal" means a prisoner liable to be classified as such under the rules for the time being in force made under the Act;

(d) "premature release" means a release of a prisoner without completing his judicially ordained sentence as a result of shortening of his sentence; and

(e) "Shortening of Sentence" means the reduction of that period of sentence of a prisoner which he has to serve in the prison upon a judicially pronounced sentence as a matter of grace on the part of the State and as a recognition of his good behaviour in the prison.

Where this provision sits

ActRajasthan Prisons (Shortening of Sentences) Rules, 2006
Section2
Marginal noteDefinition
JurisdictionState of Rajasthan
StatusIn force as published by the source

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