42. Penalty for introduction or removal of prohibited articles into or from
prison and communication with prisoners.—Whoever, contrary to any rule under
section 59 introduces or removes or attempts by any means whatever to introduce or
remove, into or from any prison, or supplies or attempts to supply to any prisoner
outside the limits of a prison, any prohibited article, and every officer of a prison
who, contrary to any such rule, knowingly suffers any such article to be introduced
into or removed from any prison, to be possessed by any prisoner, or to be supplied to
any prisoner outside the limits of a prison, and whoever, contrary to any such rule,
communicates or attempts to communicate with any prisoner, and whoever abets any
offence made punishable by this section, shall, on conviction before a Magistrate, be
liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, or to fine not exceeding
two hundred rupees, or to both.
43. Power to arrest for offence under section 42.—When any person, in the
presence of any officer of a prison, commits any offence specified in the last
foregoing section, and refuses on demand of such officer to state his name and
residence, or gives a name or residence which such officer knows, or has reason to
believe, to be false, such officer may arrest him, and shall without unnecessary delay
make him over to a Police-officer, and thereupon such Police-officer shall proceed as
if the offence had been committed in his presence.
44. Publication of penalties.—The Superintendent shall cause to be affixed,
in a conspicuous place outside the prison, a notice in English and the Vernacular
setting forth the acts prohibited under section 42 and the penalties incurred by their
commission.