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Removal of prisoners.—(1) The State Government may, by general or special order, provide for the removal of any person confined in a prison,— (a) under a sentence of death, or (b) under or in lieu of a sentence of imprisonment for life, or (c) in default of payment of a fine, or (d) in default of giving security for keeping the peace or maintaining good behaviour to any other prison in the 1[State of Karnataka]1. (2) Subject to the orders and under the control of the State Government, the Inspector-General of Prisons may, in like manner, provide for the removal of any prisoner confined as aforesaid in a prison in the 1[State of Karnataka]1, to any other prison in the State.