Section 42:
Penalty for introduction or removal of prohibited articles into or from prison and communication with prisoners.
Whoever, contrary to any rule under section 1[59] introduces
or removes or attempts by any means whatever to introduce or remove, into or from any prison,
or supplies or attempts to supply to any prisoner outside the limits of a prison, any prohibited
article,
and every officer of a prison who, contrary to any such rule, knowingly suffers any such article to be
introduced into or removed from any prison, to be possessed by any prisoner, or to be supplied to any
prisoner outside the limits of a prison,
and whoever, contrary to any such rule, communicates or attempts to communicate with any
prisoner,
and whoever abets any offence made punishable by this section,
shall, on conviction before a Magistrate, be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six
months, or to fine not exceeding two hundred rupees, or to both.
Notes:
1 Subs. by the A. O, 1937, for "60".