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(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in section 45, the Inspector General of Correctional Services may, in his discretion or on an application made to him, transfer any prisoner from one correctional home to another within West Bengal or from a correctional home in West Bengal to a correctional home or prison in any other State with the consent of the Inspector General of Prisons of that State. Such prisoner shall be given the facility of writing letters to his relatives and friends intimating his transfer to a different correctional home and the number of letters so written by him shall not be taken into account for the purpose of sub-section (1) of section 50. (2) The Inspector General of Correctional Services may, on the request of the Inspector General of Prisons of any other State, transfer a prisoner confined in a correctional home, who is domiciled in West Bengal, to a prison in that State where the prisoner is required in connection with the trial of any offence committed by him in that State. (3) (a) Subject to the provisions of this Act and the rules made thereunder, the Superintendent of a district correctional home shall have the power— (i) to transfer a prisoner from a district correctional home to the central correctional home on grounds of over-crowding; (ii) to transfer a prisoner, sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for any period exceeding three years, from the district correctional home to the central correctional home; West Ben. Act LIX of