Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) The words ‘Death Sentence’ shall be inserted before the address in all communication relating to capital sentence. (2) In all cases, the receipts of orders communicating the rejection of petitions shall invariably be acknowledged by electronic means. The orders of the Government postponing the execution shall immediately be acknowledged by electronic means. (3) The words ‘Death Sentence’ and ‘Immediate’ shall be marked on the top left and right corners of the envelope used for communication in death sentence cases. All Superintendents shall make special arrangements to ensure that communication received in these distinctive envelopes are received in the prison at any time of the day or night either by the Deputy Superintendent (Administration) or in his absence by the senior-most officer present at the time the communication is delivered who shall note the time and date of receipt of the communication in the receipt register, and shall immediately place the communication before the Superintendent. Search of condemned prisoners on admission.