Published vide in Delhi Gazette, Extra ordinary-Part 4. No. 76, dated 18th April, 1988 vide Notification No. F. 9/75/87 Home (General) (2), in exercise of the powers conferred under Section 5 of the Prisons Act, 1894 (9 of 1894) by the Administrator of the Union Territory of Delhi.
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- (1) These orders may be called 'Delhi Prison (Powers and duties of the Inspector General) Orders, [1988]
(2) These orders shall come into force with immediate effect,
- Power to entertain establishment.- (1) The Inspector-General may, from time to time in respect of any jail, entertain or sanction the entertainment of temporary establishment in accordance with the financial powers delegated to him.
(2) Every temporary subordinate officer shall be subject to the same liabilities as regards transfer, promotion, removal and punishment as are applicable to subordinate officers permanently employed.
- Supply of articles to Jails and Sale of manufactured articles.- Subject to the general control of the Administrator and to the provisions of these orders the Inspector General may enter into all such arrangements as may be necessary for the construction of all works relating to, 'and the supply of all articles for use in, or in any way relating or incidental to or connected with jails, and for the sale of all articles manufactured in jails.
- Provisions on of funds, expenditure and accounts.- Subject to the arrangements for securing due budget provision all the allotment of funds to meet the expenditure of the Jail Department, made under the orders of the Administrator in that behalf, the entire control over all expenditure on the maintenance of jails and on all matters in any way relating or incidental to, or connected with, the administration of jails, shall vest in the Inspector General:-
- Petty contracts.- (1) Any contract for the supply of any article to the extent of the estimated requirements of any jail for a period not exceeding six weeks, shall be deemed to be a petty contract.
(2) Subject to the control of the Inspector General, petty contracts may be made by the Superintendent.
- All other contracts require previous sanction.- No contract other than a petty contract, shall be made by any officer, other than the Inspector General, without the sanction in writing to be previously obtained from the Inspector General.
- Inspection of jails by Inspector General.- It shall be the duty of the Inspector General, as far as may be, personally to visit and inspect every jail at least once in three months and to satisfy himself that the provisions of the Prisons Act, 1894, and all rules, regulations, directions and orders made or issued thereunder, applicable to such jail are duly obeyed and enforced, and that the management of such jail is in all respects efficient and satisfactory. A note recording the results of each visit and inspection shall be made in a register to be maintained by the Superintendent, provided that the Inspector General may inspect a jail once in six months if the Additional Inspector General inspects the jail three months after the inspection of the Inspector General.
- Duties of the Inspector General at inspections.- In accordance with the provisions of the preceding rules, the Inspector General shall, at his inspection of each jail, ordinarily :
(a) see all yards, wards, cells, worksheds, store rooms, kitchens and latrines, noting their state of repair, sanitary condition and efficiency, the extent to which the structural arrangements permit of the separation of the different classes or prisoners as required by the Prisons Act of 1894 and the rules made thereunder and whether these arrangements are availed of to the fullest extent;
(b) examine the jail garden and note its condition as to its capabilities to supply vegetables and antiscorbutics in sufficient quantities to all the prisoners and whether it has availed of to the fullest extent ;
(c) note any defects in the water supply and conservancy arrangements; see that the sick are carefully attended to, and that the food is of proper quality and quantity ;
(d) see every prisoner than in confinement in the jail, noting any circumstances of importance requiring attention, such as the adaptation of tasks to physique and capabilities, the condition and sufficiency of the clothing, the employment of fetters, the working of the remission system, the award of punishments, and afford every prisoner a reasonable opportunity of making any application or complaint and investigate such as relate to jail discipline:
(e) inspect the warder establishment as to its proficiency, inspect the arms and accountrements, and test the ability of the upper subordinates to drill the guard ;
(f) satisfy himself that the arrangements for guarding both by day and night are satisfactory ;
(g) satisfy himself that economy is practised in the matter of all purchases;
(h) satisfy himself that all accounts and registers are maintained according to the rules in force, proper managements are made for the safe custody of all records, and that due regard is paid to all requirements of the law and rules made thereunder ; and
(i) record his opinion of the manner in which officers appear familiar with their duties, together with any suggestions he may wish to make and any orders he may desires to issue to the Superintendent.
- A copy of minute when to be submitted to Delhi Admn.- A copy of any part of the minute required by the preceding paragraph which deals with matters which should, in the opinion of the Inspector General, be brought to the notice of Delhi Administration, shall be forwarded by the Inspector-General to the Administration.
- Annual Report and returns.- The Inspector General shall, as such after the close of each calender year, as possible and not later than the first day of May in each year, submit to the Delhi Administration, a report on the administration of jails, together with such statistical and other statements, returns and information, and in such form as the Administration may, from time to time, by executive direction, require.
- Channel of communication.- In the absence of any direction to the contrary, the Inspector-General shall be channel of communication between the Delhi Administration and all Superintendents and other officers of the Jail Department.
- Inspection of criminal lunatics by the Inspector General or visitors.- (1) When any person is confined under the provisions of Section 330 or Section 335 of the Code of Criminal Procedure 1973, the Inspector General of Prisons, if such person is confined in a jail, may visit him in order to ascertain his state of mind; and he shall be visited once atleast in every two months and shall make a special report as to the state of mind of such person to the authority under whose order he is confined.
(2) The Administrator may empower the officer-in-charge of the Jail in which such person may be confined to discharge all or any of the functions of the Inspector-General.
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