Promotion of Government Servants whose conduct is under enquiry.

O.M.No.GAD (S-1)56 SSR 59, Bangalore, dated the 9th October 1959.
Promotion of Government Servants whose conduct is under enquiry.

Government has had under consideration the question whether a Government servant whose conduct is under enquiry should be considered for promotion if his seniority and previous record of service apart from the case under enquiry justify it. It is now directed
that a Government servant on whom charge sheet has been served after a prima facie case had been established against him should not be considered for promotion till the enquiry is completed. In case the Government servant is exonerated in the enquiry held against him and if his record of service is otherwise satisfactory as would entitle him for promotion, he should be promoted immediately after completion of the departmental enquiry, his seniority and rank remaining the same as would have been the case if there had been no departmental enquiry instituted against him. The Secretariat Department and Heads of Departments are requested to follow these instructions carefully in future.