GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -[12th April, 1950.] An Act to provide for the removal from one State to another of persons confined in a prison. (c) “prison” includes any place which has been declared by State Government, by general or special order, to be a subsidiary jail.

Detailed explanation-2: -[(12) ] whipping, provided that the number of stripes shall not exceed thirty: Provided that nothing in this section shall render any female or civil prisoner liable to the imposition of any form of handcuffs or fetters, or to whipping.