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The Superintendent shall report the following events at once telephonically and by other means, which shall be invariably followed by a detailed report through approved means of communications to the Director General, namely: – (a) all serious breaches of prison discipline and prison security; (b) every case in which any prisoner escapes or attempts to escape or is recaptured or commits suicide or dies from or receives a serious injury; (c) all outbreaks of epidemic disease or disease which is likely to assume an epidemic form amongst the prisoners or staff members and the measures taken to prevent the spread thereof; (d) all serious cases of overcrowding and all such other matters as the Director General may, from time to time in his discretion, by general or special order in that behalf, require to be so reported to him by the Superintendent; (e) all cases of death of prisoners alongwith immediate cause. Superintendent to accompany Director General and official visitors.