Government of The National Capital Territory of Delhi Home Department

Amendment

Issue Date: 06 August 2025 Published: 08 August 2025

Gazette ID: SG-DL-E-08082025-265291 Download PDF

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Core Purpose

This notification introduces the Delhi Prison (amendment No.9) Rules, 2025, to further amend the Delhi Prison Rules, 2018.

Detailed Summary

The Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi, through its Home (General) Department, issued the Delhi Prison (amendment No.9) Rules, 2025, dated August 4, 2025, under F. No. 9/158/2024-Home(G)/2227-42. Exercising powers conferred by clause (xxxi) of sub-section (2) of Section 71 of the Delhi Prisons Act (Delhi Act No.2 of 2002), the Lt. Governor has further amended the Delhi Prison Rules, 2018, originally notified vide notification No.F.9/87/2018/HG/5980 dated October 1, 2018. These new rules came into effect upon publication in the official Gazette on August 6, 2025. Key amendments include the substitution of sub-rule (20) of Rule 2(1) with a revised definition of 'Habitual Offender,' now defined as a person convicted and sentenced to imprisonment on more than two occasions within a continuous five-year period for distinct offenses, explicitly excluding periods spent in jail from the five-year calculation. Furthermore, a new note inserted below Rule 255 in Chapter V strictly prohibits caste-based discrimination, classification, or segregation of prisoners and ensures no discrimination in work allotment based on caste. It also mandates the binding application of 'The Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act, 2013' within prisons and correctional institutions, expressly forbidding manual scavenging or hazardous cleaning of sewers or septic tanks, and eliminates the maintenance of a 'Caste' column in jail registers. This constitutes the ninth amendment to the principal Delhi Prison Rules, 2018, which had previously undergone eight amendments from November 5, 2018, to January 29, 2024.

Full Text

REGD. No. D. L.-33002/99 GOVERNMENT OF INDIA Delhi Gazette SG-DL-E-08082025-265291 EXTRAORDINARY PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY No. 230] DELHI, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6, 2025/SHRAVANA 15, 1947 [N. C. T. D. No. 164 PART IV GOVERNMENT OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL TERRITORY OF DELHI HOME (GENERAL) DEPARTMENT NOTIFICATION Delhi, the 4th August, 2025 F. No. 9/158/2024-Home(G)/2227-42—In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (xxxi) of sub section (2) of Section 71 of the Delhi Prisons Act (Delhi Act No.2 of 2002), the Lt. Governor of National Capital Territory of Delhi is pleased to further amend the Delhi Prison Rules 2018, notified vide notification No.F.9/87/2018/HG/5980 dated 01.10.2018 namely:- 1. Short title and commencement:- (1) These rules may be called the Delhi Prison (amendment No.9) Rules, 2025. (2) The proposed amendment shall come into effect on the date of its publication of the notification in official Gazette. 2. Amendment in sub Rule (20) of Rule 2(1): In the Delhi Prisons Rules, 2018, for sub rule (20) of Rule 2(1), the following shall be substituted, as follows: Habitual Offender: Habitual offender means a person who during any continuous period of five years, has been convicted and sentenced to imprisonment on more than two occasions on account of any one or more of the offences committed on different occasions and not constituting parts of same transaction, such sentence not having been reversed in appeal or review. Provided that in computing the continuous period of five years referred to above, any period spent in jail either under sentence of imprisonment or under detention shall not be taken into account. 3. The following note shall be inserted below the explanation part of Rule 255 in Chapter V of Delhi Prison Rules, 2018: Note: Prohibition of caste based discrimination in the Prisons: a. It shall be strictly ensured that there shall be no discrimination/ classification or segregation of prisoners on the basis of their caste. b. It shall be strictly ensured that there should be no discrimination of prisoners in allotment of any work in the prisons on the basis of their caste. c. The provisions of 'The Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act, 2013' shall have a binding effect in the prisons and the correctional institutions. Manual scavenging or hazardous cleaning of a sewer or a septic tank inside a prison shall not be permitted. d. The provision of maintaining Caste column given in Registers in vogue in Jails shall be eliminated. By order and in the name of the Lt. Governor of the National Capital Territory of Delhi, SANJEEV KUNDU, Dy. Secy. (Home) Note: The Principal Notification was notified vide No.F.9/87/2018/HG/5980 dated 01.10.2018 and subsequently amended as under:- +-------+-----------------------------------+-------------+ | S.No. | File No. | Date | +-------+-----------------------------------+-------------+ | 1 | F.9/87/2018/HG/6708-6713 | 05.11.2018 | | 2 | F.9/82/2019/HG/715-728 | 12.02.2020 | | 3 | F.18/191/2015/HG/1379-1392 | 23.03.2020 | | 4 | F.18/191/2015/HG/1649-62 | 20.05.2020 | | 5 | F.18/191/2015/HG/1840-1853 | 08.06.2020 | | 6 | F.18/71/2019/HG/1897-1905 | 16.06.2020 | | 7 | F.18/26/2022/HG/2672-2680 | 23.09.2022 | | 8 | F.18/08/2023/HG/258-266 | 29.01.2024 | +-------+-----------------------------------+-------------+ Uploaded by Dte. of Printing at Government of India Press, Ring Road, Mayapuri, New Delhi-110064 and Published by the Controller of Publications, Delhi-110054. GORAKHA NATH YADAVA Digitally signed by GORAKHA NATH YADAVA Date: 2025.08.08 14:15:32 +0530

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