Section 4

Application for transfer by a prisoner.

The Repatriation of Prisoners Act, 2003

  • Act 49 of 2003
  • Ministry of Home Affairs
  • Department of Home
About this Act

An Act to provide for the transfer of certain prisoners from India to country or place outside India and reception in India of certain prisoners from country or place outside India.

All sections
    Any prisoner who is a citizen of a contracting State may make an application to the Central Government for transfer of his custody from India to that contracting State:
     Provided that if a prisoner is not able to make an application himself because of his ill health, mental condition, old age or being a minor, then, the application may be made by any other person entitled to act on his behalf.

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