State Act

THE KARNATAKA PRISONS ACT, 1963

46. Punishment of offences under section 45.—The Superintendent may examine any person touching any offence declared to be a prison offence under section 45, and determine thereupon and punish such offence by,— (1) a formal warning; Explanation.—A formal warning shall mean a warning personally addressed to a prisoner by the Superintendent and recorded in the punishment book and on the prisoner’s history-ticket. (2) change of labour to some more irksome or severe form for such period as may be prescribed; (3) hard labour for a period not exceeding seven days in case of convicted criminal prisoners not sentenced to rigorous imprisonment; (4) such loss of privileges admissible under the remission or furlough system for the time being in force as may be prescribed; (5) separate confinement for any period not exceeding two months: Provided that while executing punishment of separate confinement, no prisoner shall be kept in separate confinement continuously for more than a fortnight at one time and the interval between one period of confinement and the next will be at least a week. Explanation.—“Separate confinement” means such confinement with or without labour as entirely secludes a prisoner from communication with, but not from sight of, other prisoners.