Such information shall also be displayed at a place accessible to prisoners.

कारागार-अपराध The following acts are declared to be prison offences when committed by a prisoner:-

1. (I) Minor offences,-

1. (a) any act or omission or wilful disobedience to any regulation of the prison as have been declared by rules made under this Act;
2. (b) doing or omitting to do any act with intent to cause to oneself any illness, injury or disability and wilfully disabling himself from labour;
3. (c) failing to assist in the maintenance of prison discipline;
4. (d) quarrelling with other prisoners;
5. (e) failing to report at once any loss, breakage or injury, which the prisoner may accidentally have caused, to
6. (f) refusing to eat food or going on a hunger strike;
7. (g) wilfully or negligently destroying or spoiling food or throwing it away without orders;
8. (h) violating rules and regulations framed for the systematic running of the canteen; and
   • (i) being idle, careless or negligent at work, refusing to work, malingering and disturbing other prisoners, at work, or in barracks;
   • (II) Major Offences,-
9. (a) any act or omission or wilful disobedience to any regulation of the prison as have been declared by rules made under this Act;
10. (b) endangering the security of the prison in any way, by a wilful or negligent act and shall include tampering in any way with prison walls, building, bars, locks and keys, lamps or lights or with any other security and custody measure;
11. (c) planning, instigating or abetting, directly or indirectly, the commission of any major prison offence;
12. (d) failing to give assistance to a prison official when called to do so, in pursuance of any lawful and bonafide activity;
13. (e) attacking, assaulting, and causing injuries to others;
14. (f) participating in a riot or mutiny, abetting another prisoner to do the same;
15. (g) escaping or attempting to escape from prison or legal custody;
16. (h) possessing, hiding, smuggling, attempting to smuggle, obtaining, giving or receiving and bartering contraband articles;
    • (i) stealing or damaging or destroying or disfiguring or misappropriating any prison property or prisoner articles and property;
17. (j) tampering with or defacing identity cards, records or documents;
18. (k) breach of the condition of leave and emergency release;
19. (l) introducing into food or drink anything likely to render it unpalatable, unwholesome, or dangerous for human consumption;
20. (m) manufacturing any article without the knowledge or permission of officers of the prison;
21. (n) wilfully hurting other's religious feelings, beliefs and faiths;
22. (o) agitating or acting on the basis of caste or religious prejudices;
23. (p) participating in, or organising, unauthorised activities like gambling and betting;
24. (q) using indecent, abusive, insolent, threatening of improper language; and
25. (r) failing to assist, or preventing other person from assisting prison officials in suppressing violence, assault, riot, mutiny, attack, gross personal violence or any other emergencies.