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India: Regulations as to the mode of infliction of corporal punishment imposed pursuant to the Penal Code



BENGAL

On the buttocks or on the hand, as the Court may direct.
Bengal Government, August 18, 1898
Calcutta H.C. Rules, pp.62-64

MADRAS

On the posteriors, after the prisoner is fastened to a triangle.
Madras Gazette, January 1, 1883

BOMBAY

On the bare back across the shoulders, and in the case of persons under sixteen, on the bare buttocks.
Bombay Gazette., 1883, Pt I, p102; Man.,p.390

UNITED PROVINCES AND PUNJAB

On the buttocks.
All Man., p.277; Punjab Bk., Cir.Vol.II p.269

BURMA

On the breech.
Bur.Gaz.,1881,Pt I., p.201, Man., p.106

Source: "Whipping in India" by Hiralal Chakravarti, The Humane Review, 1914, page 172.





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