In which of the following years was the Bengal State Prisoners Regulation (Bengal Regulation III) passed?

Option 3 : 1818

The correct answer is 1818.

• The Bengal Regulation III of 1818 also known as the Bengal State Prisoners Regulation, III of 1818, was a law for preventive detention enacted by the East India Company in the Presidency of Bengal in 1818.
• It empowered the British administration to detain an individual indefinitely, on the basis of suspicion of criminal intent, and without having to commit the detainee to trial.
• Similar laws were also enacted in the Presidencies of Madras and Bombay.
• The act, along with a similar law enacted in 1915 was put to significant implementation during World War I in British India and remained enforced until at least 1927.