APCS RulesAndhra Pradesh1991
The Andhra Pradesh Civil Services (Classification, Control and Appeal) Rules, 1991
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Contents
- 1Short title and commencement:
- 2Interpretation:
- 3Application:
- 4Power to exclude from operation:
- 5Classification of Services:
- 8Suspension:
- 10Payment of Subsistence Allowance during Suspension period - Further instructions
- 11Prevention of Corruption - Suspension of Officers involved in trap cases
- 12Interim Relief pending revision of scales of pay - Payment of Interim Relief to those who are under suspension - Clarification - Issued
- 13Anti-Corruption Bureau - Trap cases - Transfer of trapped officers
- 14Disciplinary Cases Review of orders of suspension against Government Servants - Instructions - Reiterated
- 15Appointment by Promotion/Transfer to higher categories of employees who are facing disciplinary cases - Guidelines - Issued
- 16Acquittal by the Courts of ACB and SPE, based on the judgement of the Supreme Court in Raj Deo Sharma vs State of Bihar - Instructions regarding revocation of suspension, regularisation of suspension period, etc. - Issued
- 17Subsistence Allowance Pending Consideration of Appeal - Regarding
- 18Payment of Compensatory Allowance to the Government Servants under suspension - Further Clarificatory Instructions - Issued
- 19Suspension - Guidelines for placing Accused Officers under suspension in Trap Cases - Classification of trap cases - Instructions - Issued
- 20Combating corruption in public services. Suspension of corrupt officers on whom criminal misconduct cases - Instructions - Issued
- 21Review of orders of suspension of Government Servants - Existing orders reiterated - Further instructions - Issued
- 22Invoking provision of Andhra Pradesh Revenue Recovery Act: - The provisions of Revenue Recovery Act can be invoked for recovery of the misappropriated amounts or loss caused to the Government Recovery of misappropriated amount or loss caused to Government can be recovered as if it were an arrear of land Revenue in accordance with the procedure laid down in the A.P. Revenue Recovery Act. Where the officer responsible fails to remit the amount to the Government account. It is open to Government to file a civil suit for a recovery of such sum as a last resort
- 23Punishments to be awarded in proved cases of misappropriation: -There is a wide disparity in the scales of punishment meted out in misappropriation cases. The question of prescribing uniform scale of punishment in such cases has been considered by Government It has been decided that ordinarily cases of proved misappropriation would justify nothing less than dismissal from service and action should accordingly be taken. The minimum penalty to be imposed in all proven cases of misappropriation (in addition to the recovery of amount misappropriated) is dismissal form service. In case of a retired employees the penalty should be withholding of entire pension and gratuity permanently or withdrawal of pension as the case may be besides recovery of the misappropriation / loss amount. There may, however, be rare cases where in the circumstances, such as trivial amount, short duration, immediate payment on detection, all of which may raise a presumption that it was an error in accounting, which may justify a different punishment. A clear distinction should be drawn between the cases of "delayed remittance" and "misappropriation" having regard to the fact that in proved cases of misappropriation no punishment short of dismissal is normally justified and accordingly the case of 'delayed remittance' need not always be classified for the purpose of audit as a case of misappropriation