Bare ActsThe ASSAM PRISONS ACT, 2013

Section 70

The following acts and omissions on the part of any inmate sryall be deemed as prison offences: ----- '

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The following acts and omissions on the part of any inmate sryall be deemed as prison offences: ----- ' . . ; (i) conspiring or assisting' to escap~; I (ii) assault or attack upon any officer or inmate·; (iii) orgainslng ~r conspiring to organise a riot, mutiny or . ·any other act of violence and/or ... participating or instigating other inmates to participate in such act of violence: I '· i ! . /. I I . I THE ASSAM GAZETTE, EXTRAORDINARYf MAY 30, 2013 1401 (iv) omitting or refusing ~~ .report, as soon as it comes to h.is knowledg~ , any occurrence of fire, (v) , • any escape, attempt or preparation to escape, any attack or preparation for attack upon officer or inmate, and any violence or preparation for violence; {·-· omitting or refusing to help an officer of the prison when called ~pon to do so In ddusing fire or preventing escape, violence, suppressing assault, attack, violence, riot or'mutiny, or in any other emergencies; (vi) doing any act likely to create unnecessary alarm in the minds of other inmates; (vii) (viii) causing or. attempting to cause disturbance of . • :1 . .. , . . l ' law and order and discipline in th~ prison; wilfully tampering in a11y way:; with ... walls, buildings;· bars;. locks and .,key~'. · lights .. or lamps, handcuffs, · fetters or in;ms of any .. other ) description, or any other security and custody measures of the prison; (ix) communicating or atten:lpting .. to communicate. ·o..;: with outsiders otherwise than through authorized channels; (x) receiving, ;, possessing or tran~ferring any prc)hibited article; · (xi) wilfully tampering with or defacing history tickets, records or documents; (xii) wilfully causing d~mage to p,ri!3on property; •.. (xiii} stealing any prison property or any article of any other inmate; receiving, possessing or transferring any such stol~n property or article; (xiv) wilfully bringing ·any false ~qcusat/on against any officer. or inmate; .·. (xv) .using indecent, abusiye, insultf11g or threatening language; (xvi) doing or making any immoral, indecent, vulgar or disorderly acts or gestures; (xvii) wilfully hurting religious feelings, beliefs or faiths of aey inmate, or attempting to convert any inmate to a different religious faith; ) 1402 THE ASSAM GAZETTE, EXTRAORDINARY, MAY 30, 2013 Punishm- ents for prison offences (xviii) refusing to eat the Jood prescribed by prison rules, or going on .'11i.1,n_gerwstri~e; (xix) willfully or negligently destroying or . spoiling . .. i food; ·· • (XX} feigniAg, illness, or wilfully causing to himself , .. any illness, injury or disability; _,; " (xxi) omitting or refusing to . perform work, .or wilful idleness or negligence at work, as assigned to .him in the manner prescribed; (xxii) such · willful disobedience to any rule 0 or regulation of the prison as may be declared by rules made under this Act to be a prison offence; (xxiii) instigating, abetting or . assisting1 directly or indirectly;· any . inmate to__ com~~t any of the aforesaid offences:;'

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