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Every infringement of prison rules shall be brought to the notice of the Superintendent, who shall decide whether the infringement reported constitutes an offence. If the Superintendent believes that the infringement of rule was committed through ignorance or excusable carelessness, he shall admonish the prisoner and dismiss the charge without recording it in the punishment register. But, if after communicating to the prisoner concerned the facts alleged against him and also allowing him to state his defense, the Superintendent finds it to be an offence, he shall award appropriate punishment, and have it recorded in the prisoner’s history ticket and punishment register. The punishment register for prisoners shall have details of prison offences committed by the prisoners. Such record shall also be maintained digitally in the Integrated Prison Management System. The order of punishment shall also be communicated to the concerned prisoner. Diary of termination of prison punishment to be maintained.