Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) Letters from a Legislator detenu to the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly and communication from the Speaker to that detenu as well as correspondence between a detenu and courts of law shall not be censored and the same be forwarded directly by the Superintendent to the quarters concerned. All such letters shall be sent by the Superintendent within twenty-four hours of their receipt by him. The letters meant for the Legislator detenu received from the Legislative Secretariat and the letters from the Court(s) of law to any detenu shall ordinarily be delivered on the day these are received. (2) Each detenu may be permitted to write any number of letters at his own expense and may receive any number of letters per week. (3) In exercising censorship on a letter, the prison authority shall ensure the following, namely:– (a) that there is no undue delay in transmission or delivery of letters; (b) that the letter delivered or transmitted contains nothing prejudicial to the security of the State or any individual. (4) No letter, newspaper, or other communication shall be transmitted to or from any detenu except through the Superintendent or such other officer as the Government may, by general or special order designate in this behalf. (5) All letters to and from a detenu shall be perused by the Superintendent and subject to any special orders of the Government, shall be submitted by the Superintendent directly to the District Superintendent of Police concerned who may, at his discretion either forward the letter without delay or withhold them. In case of doubt, the District Superintendent of Police concerned shall refer the matter to the Head of Intelligence Wing of the police. (6) If any communication made by or intended to be delivered to a detenu contains anything objectionable from the point of view of prison discipline, the Superintendent may delete the same or mark it for deletion and mention what has been done when forwarding such communication to the proper authority. (7) Every letter forwarded to or from a detenu shall be initialed and dated by the officer who handled the letter. (8) In all cases in which a letter is withheld, the detenu shall be informed through the Superintendent of the fact of the retention. All letters withheld shall be sent to the Head of the Intelligence Wing of Police or other officer designated in this behalf, who may either retain or destroy them. (9) Detenu shall attach to all their outgoing correspondence a slip containing the full name, address, and their relationship, if any, with the addressee and each person mentioned in the letter. These slips shall be sent to the Head of Intelligence Wing of Police or other officer designated by the Government in this behalf, who, if he considers it necessary that the writer shall not be allowed to correspond with the addressee, shall inform the Superintendent or the officer concerned for his future guidance. (10) The correspondence to and from a detenu shall confine purely to domestic matters or such matters relating to the welfare of the detenu or his family and matters relating to his private business. Letters containing references to political or communal matters shall be withheld. Procedure on death, transfer or release.