48Award of punishments under sections 46 and 47

(1) The Superintendent shall have power to award any of the punishments enumerated in the two last foregoing sections, subject, in the case of separate confinement for a period exceeding one month, to the previous confirmation of the Inspector General.

(2) No officer subordinate to the Superintendent shall have power to award any punishment whatever.

STATE AMENDMENT

Orissa.--

Insertion of new section 48-A (Act 9 of 1894).--After section 48 of the said Act, the following new section shall be inserted, namely:--

48-A. Punishment for breach of conditions of suspension of sentence.--If any prisoner fails without sufficient cause to observe any of the conditions on which his sentence was suspended or remitted or furlough was granted to him, he shall be deemed to have committed a prison offence and the Superintendent may after obtaining his explanation, punish such offence by--

(1) a formal warning as provided in clause (1) of section 46; or

(2) Reduction in grade if such prisoner has been appointed as an officer of prison; or

(3) Loss of privileges admissible under the remission or furlough system; or

(4) Loss of such other privileges as the State Government may, by a general or special order direct.

[Vide the Orissa Act 29 of 1958. s. 5].