Penalty for introduction or removal of prohibited articles into or from prison and communication with prisoners

Section 42 of the Prisons Act, 1894 deals with 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, contr The Act came into force on 07 Jan 1894.

Whoever, contrary to any rule under section ¹[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.

Section 42, The Prisons Act, 1894 (Act 9 of 1894).