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REGULATION XX.
[A.D. 1817.
be taken of unnecessary
severity.
Rules for their being
delivered over to the
not to place any individual in the stocks, except during the night-time,
and then only in cases of robbery and murder, or of previous escape from
custody, or when the notoriety of the prisoner's character or his behaviour
may be such as to render this mode of confinement essential for his safe-
guard.
AmzA. The darogalis of police shall further be competent to use hand-
cuds of a light construction, to be provided by the magistrates (instead of
fetters and ropes for the legs and arms), for the purpose of forwarding
heinous criminals with safety to the Magistrate's Court.
The darogahs shall be held strictly accountable for any ill-treat-
ment which prisoners may sustain whilst under their charge, and for any
severity further than what may be essentially requisite for securing the per-
sons of such prisoners.
Burkundauzes escorting prisoners shall, on ordinary occasions,
journey at a rate not less than six or more than eight coss per diem.
When alighting at any village for the night, the police-officers
having charge of prisoners shall report their arrival to the proprietor,
farmer, or head man of the village, who shall point out a proper place for
and shall require the village
securing the
prisoners during the night,
watchmen to afford their aid in guarding them.
In cases in which the prisoners may be unable to support
themselves during their journey from the police thannah to the Magis-
trate's Court, the darogahs shall advance such amount for diet-allowance
as may be necessary for their way-charges, not exceeding the rate of one
anna per diem ; reporting the same for the information and orders of the
magistrate.
On the arrival of the prisoners at the sudder station, the
burkundauzes charged with the despatch shall convey them to the fouj-
darrv nazir, or to such other native officer as the magistrate may appoint,
in order that they may be secured in a lock-up-house until the report of
the case can be perused by the magistrate, till which time one or more of
the burkundauzes who may have accompanied the prisoners shall remain
in attendance, to be examined, if necessary, on any points relating to the
case.
one station to another,
shah be transmitted
from thannah to than-
nah by police burkun-
dauzes.
Az/h?C72;fA. Prisoners who may be sent from the station of one district to
that of another, or who may be sent by a magistrate into the mofussil, for
the purpose of being discharged, shall, exclusive of other papers, be sent
with a written despatch unsealed, showing the name of the prisoner and
his destination; and it shall be the duty of the darogahs to forward
prisoners of this description according to the despatch which may accom-
pany them, under charge of the police burkundauzes from thannah to
thannah. A statement of all such cases, specifying the names of the
prisoners and other particulars, shall be recorded in the thannah diary pre-
scribed by Section VIII. of this Regulation.
The darogah and other officers of police are hereby pro-
hibited, under penalty of immediate dismission from office, from detaining
any prisoners, without sending them to the magistrate, beyond such time
as may be indispensably requisite for the inquiries directed by this or any
other Regulation ; and if from any cause the inquiry cannot be completed
* So much of this clause as prescribes forms and period of transmission of reports, rescinded
by Sec. ii. Reg. VII. 1829.
REGULATION XX.
[A.D. 1817.
be taken of unnecessary
severity.
Rules for their being
delivered over to the
not to place any individual in the stocks, except during the night-time,
and then only in cases of robbery and murder, or of previous escape from
custody, or when the notoriety of the prisoner's character or his behaviour
may be such as to render this mode of confinement essential for his safe-
guard.
AmzA. The darogalis of police shall further be competent to use hand-
cuds of a light construction, to be provided by the magistrates (instead of
fetters and ropes for the legs and arms), for the purpose of forwarding
heinous criminals with safety to the Magistrate's Court.
The darogahs shall be held strictly accountable for any ill-treat-
ment which prisoners may sustain whilst under their charge, and for any
severity further than what may be essentially requisite for securing the per-
sons of such prisoners.
Burkundauzes escorting prisoners shall, on ordinary occasions,
journey at a rate not less than six or more than eight coss per diem.
When alighting at any village for the night, the police-officers
having charge of prisoners shall report their arrival to the proprietor,
farmer, or head man of the village, who shall point out a proper place for
and shall require the village
securing the
prisoners during the night,
watchmen to afford their aid in guarding them.
In cases in which the prisoners may be unable to support
themselves during their journey from the police thannah to the Magis-
trate's Court, the darogahs shall advance such amount for diet-allowance
as may be necessary for their way-charges, not exceeding the rate of one
anna per diem ; reporting the same for the information and orders of the
magistrate.
On the arrival of the prisoners at the sudder station, the
burkundauzes charged with the despatch shall convey them to the fouj-
darrv nazir, or to such other native officer as the magistrate may appoint,
in order that they may be secured in a lock-up-house until the report of
the case can be perused by the magistrate, till which time one or more of
the burkundauzes who may have accompanied the prisoners shall remain
in attendance, to be examined, if necessary, on any points relating to the
case.
one station to another,
shah be transmitted
from thannah to than-
nah by police burkun-
dauzes.
Az/h?C72;fA. Prisoners who may be sent from the station of one district to
that of another, or who may be sent by a magistrate into the mofussil, for
the purpose of being discharged, shall, exclusive of other papers, be sent
with a written despatch unsealed, showing the name of the prisoner and
his destination; and it shall be the duty of the darogahs to forward
prisoners of this description according to the despatch which may accom-
pany them, under charge of the police burkundauzes from thannah to
thannah. A statement of all such cases, specifying the names of the
prisoners and other particulars, shall be recorded in the thannah diary pre-
scribed by Section VIII. of this Regulation.
The darogah and other officers of police are hereby pro-
hibited, under penalty of immediate dismission from office, from detaining
any prisoners, without sending them to the magistrate, beyond such time
as may be indispensably requisite for the inquiries directed by this or any
other Regulation ; and if from any cause the inquiry cannot be completed
* So much of this clause as prescribes forms and period of transmission of reports, rescinded
by Sec. ii. Reg. VII. 1829.