LawgistThe Prisons Act
53Whipping
(1) No punishment of whipping shall be inflicted in instalments, or except in the presence of the Superintendent and Medical Officer or Medical Subordinate.
(2) Whipping shall be inflicted with a light ratan not less than half an inch in diameter on the buttocks, and in case of prisoners under the age of sixteen it shall be inflicted, in the way of school discipline, with a lighter ratan.
STATE AMENDMENT
Assam.
Amendment of Section 53 of Act 9 of 1894.--Section 53 of the Principal Act shall be omitted.
[Vide Assam Act 12 of 1956, s. 6.]
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PRISON-OFFENCES
- 45 Prison-offences
- 46 Punishment of such offences
- 47 Plurality of punishments under section 46
- 48 Award of punishments under sections 46 and 47
- 49 Punishments to be in accordance with foregoing sections
- 50 Medical Officer to certify to fitness of prisoner for punishment
- 51 Entries in punishment-books
- 52 Procedure on committal of heinous offence
- 53 Whipping
- 54 Offences by prison-subordinates
