PART I EXTRAORDINARY
No.457 AMARAVATI, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 2018 G.251 NOTIFICATIONS BY GOVERNMENT
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HOME DEPARTMENT
(PRISONS & FIRE)
AMENDMENT TO THE SUSPENSION OF SENTENCE ON PAROLE RULES, 1981.
[G.O.Ms.No. 74, Home (Prisons & Fire), 6th June, 2018.]
NOTIFICATION
In exercise of the powers conferred under sub section (5) of Section 432 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (Central Act 2 of 1974) read with clause (17) of sub section (1) of Section 59 of the Prisons Act, 1894 (Central Act IX of 1894), the Governor of Andhra Pradesh hereby makes the following amendment to the Suspension of Sentence on Parole Rules, 1981 issued in G.O.Ms.No.647, Home (Prisons.C) Department, Dt: 23rd October, 1981 and published in rules Supplement to Part-I of the Andhra Pradesh Gazette Dated the 3rd December, 1981 and as amended from time to time:-
AMENDMENT
In the said Rules:
After rule-24, the following rule shall be added, namely:-
"25. Special Parole for a period of 30 days be granted to all convict women pregnant prisoners irrespective of the Sections under which they are sentenced and irrespective of the sentence they have undergone, to have her delivery outside the prison. Only in exceptional cases constituting high security risk or cases of equivalent grave descriptions, this facility can be denied".
A. R. ANURADHA, Principal Secretary to Government.