Kautilya's Arthashastra 4.9.23

4.9.23

bandhanāgārādhyakṣasya saṃruddhakam anākhyāya cārayataś caturviṃśatipaṇo daṇḍaḥ, karma kārayato dviguṇaḥ, sthānānyatvaṃ gamayato 'nnapānaṃ vā rundhataḥ ṣaṇṇavatir daṇḍaḥ, parikleśayata utkoṭayato vā madhyamaḥ sāhasadaṇḍaḥ, ghnataḥ sāhasraḥ //

When the superintendeat of jails puts any person in lock-up without declaring the grounds of provocation (samkrudhakamanákhyáya), he shall be fined 24 panas; when he subjects any person to unjust torture, 48 panas; when he transfers a prisoner to another place, or deprives a prisoner of food and water, 96 panas; when be troubles or receives bribes from a prisoner, he shall be punished, with the middlemost amercement; when he beats a prisoner to death, he shall be fined 1,000 panas. When a person commits rape with a captive, slave, or hired woman in lock-up, he shall be punished with the first amercement; when he commits rape with the wife of a thief, or of any other man who is dead in an epidemic (dámara), he shall be punished with the middlemost amercement; and when he commits rape with an Arya woman in lock-up, he shall be punished with the highest amercement.