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State of Punjab - Section

Section 316 in Punjab Jail Manual, 1996

316. Main principles to observed in guarding.

- Every prisoner in the jail shall at all times, both by day and night, be in charge of some officer, in such a manner that responsibility for an escape resulting from negligence, can be definitely fixed. A record of the names of prisoners made over to each officer during the day shall be kept in a gang-book and every subsequent change of a prisoner from one gang to another, shall be recorded therein under the authority and signatures of an officer not below the rank of a head warder, who likewise at every change of guard shall be present to witness and verify the number of prisoners made over to the relieving officer.