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[Cites 0, Cited by 0] [Section 784] [Entire Act]

State of Punjab - Subsection

Section 784(2) in Punjab Jail Manual, 1996

(2)The Superintendent and Deputy Superintendent will visit the condemned prisoner in his cell a few minutes before the hour fixed for execution. The Superintendent shall then first identify the prisoner, as the person named in the warrant and read over a translation of the warrant in vernacular to the prisoner. Any other documents requiring attestation by the prisoner, such as his will shall thereafter be signed and attested in the presence of the Superintendent. The Superintendent will then proceed to the scaffold, the prisoner remaining in his cell. In the presence of the Deputy Superintendent the hands of the convicts will next be pinioned behind his back and his leg irons (if any) struck off.