THE ALL INDIA SERVICES (DISCIPLINE AND APPEAL) RULES, 1969
6. Penalties.-
6(1) The following penalties may, for good and sufficient reasons and as hereinafter provided be imposed on a member of the Service, namely:-
Minor Penalties:
(i) censure;
(ii) withholding of promotions;
(iii) recovery form pay of the whole, or part of any pecuniary loss caused to Government, or to a company, association or body of individuals, whether incorporated or not, which is wholly or substantially owned or controlled by Government, or to a local authority set up by an Act of Parliament or of the Legislature of a State, by negligence or breach of orders;
(iv) withholding of increments of pay;
Major Penalties:
(v) reduction to a lower stage in the time scale of pay for a specified period with further directions as to whether or not the member of the Service will earn increments during the period of reduction and whether, on the expiry of such period, the reduction will or will not have the effect of postponing future increments of his pay;
(vi) reduction to a lower time scale of pay, grade or post which shall ordinarily be a bar to promotion of the member of the Service to the time scale of pay, grade or post from which he was reduced, with or without further direction regarding conditions of restoration to the grade or post from which the member of the Service was reduced and his seniority and pay on such restoration to that grade or post;
(vii) compulsory retirement:
Provided that, if the circumstances of the case so warrant, the authority imposing the penalty may direct that the retirement benefits admissible to the member of the Service under the All India Services (Death-cum-Retirement Benefits) Rules, 1958, shall be paid at such reduced scale as may not be less than two-thirds of the appropriate scales indicated in Schedules 'A' and 'B' of the said rules;
(viii) removal from Service which shall not be a disqualification for future employment under the Government;
(ix) dismissal from Service which shall ordinarily be a disqualification for future employment under the Government.
Provided that every case in which the charge of acceptance from any person of any gratification, other than legal remuneration, as a motive or reward for doing or for bearing to do any official act is established, the penalty mentioned in clause (viii) or clause (ix) shall be imposed.
Provided further that in any exceptional case, and for special reasons recorded in writing any other penalty may be imposed.
Explanation- The following shall not amount to a penalty within the meaning of this rule; namely:-
(i) Withholding of increments of pay of a member of the Service for failure to pass a departmental examination in accordance with the rules or orders governing the service;
(ii) Stoppage of a member of the Service at the efficiency bar in the time-scale of pay on the ground of his unfitness to cross the bar;
(iii) non-promotion of a member of the Service, whether in a substantive or officiating capacity, to a post in the senior time-scale of pay on the ground of lack of adequate length of service and experience or non-confirmation in the service, or failure to pass the departmental examination;
(iii-a) non-promotion of a member of the Service, whether in a substantive or officiating capacity, after due consideration of his case to the selection grade or to a post carrying pay above the time-scale of pay.
(iv) reversion of a member of the Service officiating in a higher grade or post to which promotions are made by selection, to a lower grade or post after a period of trial not exceeding three years on the ground that he is considered unsuitable for such higher grade or post, or on any administrative ground unconnected with his conduct;
(v) reversion of a member of the Service, appointed on probation to the Service, to State Service, during or at the end of the period of probation, in accordance with the terms of appointment or the rules and orders governing such probation;
(vi) replacement of the services of a member of the Service whose services have been borrowed from a State Government at the disposal of the State Government concerned;
(vii) compulsory retirement of a member of the Service under the Provisions of the All India Services (Death-cum-Retirement Benefit) Rules, 1958;
(viii) termination of the service of a member of the Service, appointed on probation, during or at the end of the period of probation in accordance with the terms of the service or the rules and orders governing such probation.
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