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The Department of Prisons and Correctional Services connected Saturday issued a circular with caller regulations, partially restricting the proviso of food, clothing, and bedding to prisoners from backstage sources. The bid cites concerns related to situation security, safety, overcrowding, and administrative feasibility for the regulation. The caller acceptable of regulations comes successful the backdrop of a bid of exposés of preferential attraction to prisoners wrong Parappana Agrahara Central Prison, Bengaluru.
Alok Kumar, Director General of Police, Prisons and Correctional Services, has issued orders to each prisons crossed the State directing contiguous implementation of the caller rules.
While Section 30 of the Karnataka Prisons Act, 1963 permits civilian and undertrial prisoners to person food, clothing, and different necessities from backstage sources, the caller circular noted that each prisoners are already being provided with each that is capable by the Prisons and Correctional Services Department arsenic per the existing laws and manuals. In presumption of information and wellness concerns, the receipt of specified items from extracurricular the installation has present been regulated and restricted.
Restrictions connected food
Under the caller rules, cooked nutrient from backstage sources has been wholly prohibited. It volition not beryllium allowed to beryllium brought into prisons either astatine the clip of admittance oregon during interviews. However, definite uncooked and packaged nutrient items volition beryllium permitted from backstage sources during admittance oregon interviews, taxable to thorough introspection by situation authorities.
The allowed foods see caller fruits specified arsenic bananas, apples, mangoes, guavas, and chickoos, constricted to a full of 2 kilograms per person. Dry fruits, including almonds, cashews, walnuts, and raisins, are constricted to fractional a kilogram successful total. Bakery and confectionery items specified arsenic biscuits, cookies, namkeens, and chips are besides constricted to fractional a kilogram. No different nutrient items volition beryllium allowed.
Clothing and beds
The regulations besides spot limits connected covering brought from outside. Prisoners volition beryllium permitted to person lone 2 pairs of outer covering and 2 pairs of interior garments, isolated from the apparel worn astatine the clip of admission. Any excess covering recovered during searches volition beryllium seized and confiscated by situation authorities.
The circular besides states that since bedding is already provided by the Prison Department, nary bedding volition ordinarily beryllium allowed from backstage sources. However, 1 further broad has been permitted connected request, taxable to thorough information checks and availability of space. Any prohibited oregon suspicious items detected volition beryllium dealt with successful accordance with the law.
The circular directs each situation authorities to strictly enforce the caller regulations. Violations by prisoners volition warrant enactment nether the Karnataka Prisons Act, 1963, the Karnataka Prison Rules, 1974, and the Karnataka Prisons and Correctional Services Manual, 2021. Prison unit person besides been instructed to support due documentation of seizures and confiscations.
The caller regulations volition override immoderate earlier circulars, instructions, oregon orders related to the receipt of food, clothing, oregon bedding from backstage sources. Superintendents and Chief Superintendents of each central, district, open, and taluk prisons person been directed to guarantee strict compliance.
