(1) The Governor may impose any of the penalties specified in rule 8 on any Government servant.
(2) Without prejudice to the provisions of sub-rule (1) but subject to the provisions of sub-rule (3):-
(a) 1[* * * *]1
(aa) The Inspector General of Police may impose on Assistant Director, Serologist, Physicist, Toxicologist, Ballistic Expert and Questioned Documents Experts of the Forensic Science Laboratory, Bangalore, any of the penalties specified in clauses 1A[(iii), (iiai), (iv) and (iva)]1A of rule 8;
(b) (i) 2[ x x x]2
1. Omitted by Notification No. GAD 28 SSR 69 dated 12-12-1973.
1A.Substituted by Notification No. GAS 28 SSR 69, dated 12-12-1973 KGD 24-1-1974.
2. Omitted vide Notification No. DPAR 9 SDE 2003 datd 13-11-2003 (KGD 15-11-2003) 9
(ii) The Deputy Commissioners may impose on Tahsildars and Block Development Officers any of the penalties specified in clauses (ii) to (iiia) of rule 8.
1[“(bb) The Heads of Department in the scale of pay of not less than Rupees 4,700-6,400 (or its equivalent as may be revised from time to time) and those belonging to the All India Services may impose on a member of the State Civil Service holding a Group B post or a Group-A post carrying a pay scale of not more than Rupees 2,600- 4,575 (or its equivalent as may be revised from time to time) working in their administrative control, any of the penalties specified in clauses
(ii), (iii), (iiia), (iv) and (iva) of rule 8;
(bbb) The Heads of the Department in the scale of pay of less than Rupees 4,700-6,400 (or its equivalent as may be revised from time to time) and those belonging to the All India Services may impose on a member of the State Civil Service holding a Group-B post working in their administrative control, any of the penalties specified in clauses
(ii), (iii), (iiia), (iv) and (iva) of rule 8”.]
2[“(bbb-1) The Commissioner for Health and Family Welfare Services may impose on any Government servant upto and inclusive of the level of Joint Director 3[(Pay Scale of Rs. 10620-14960)]3 (as may be revised from time to time) belonging to the Health and Family Welfare Services, any of the penalties specified in clauses (ii), (iii), (iiia), (iv) and (iva) of rule 8;
(bbb-2) The Chief Administrative Officer in the Office of the Director, Medical Education may impose on any Government servant belonging to Medical Education Services Group ‘C’ and ‘D’ cadres working in the Office of the Director, Medical Education, any of the penalties specified in Clauses (i) to (iva) of rule 8;
1. Substituted by Notification No. DPAR 13 SDE 97, dated 1-9-1998 (w.e.f. 1- 9-1998). (KGD 7-9-1998)
2. Inserted by Notification No. DPAR 11 SDE 2002 (II) dated 9-8-2002 (w.e.f.
20-8-2002).
3. Substituted by Notification No. DPAR 1 SDE 2003, dated 16-8-2003 KGD 26-8-2003.
10 (bbb-3) The District offices, Heads of Institutions, Superintendent of Hospitals, Heads of the offices, Principals, D.M.O., Civil Surgeon may impose on any of the Government servants belonging to Medical Education Services Group ‘C’ and ‘D’ cadres working under their administrative control in the Offices, Institutions, or Hospitals outside the office of Director, Medical Education, any of the penalties specified in clauses (i) to (iva) of rule 8;
Explanation: District Officers include Superintendents of Browing and Lady Curzon Hospital, Victoria Hospital, Vanivilas Hospital and Minto Hospital, Principals of Government Dental College and Bangalore Medical College, Superintendents of K.R. Hospital, Mysore, Cheluvamba Hospital, Mysore, PKTB Hospital, Mysore, CG Hospital, Davangere, Women and Children Hospital, Davangere, Government Wenlock Hospital, Mangalore, Lady Goshen Hospital, Mangalore, Superintendent and Mental Hospital, Dharwad.
1["Superintendent, SDS Tuberculosis and chest Diseases Hospital, Hosur Road, Bangalore, Principal, Mysore Medical College, Mysore, Principal, Rajiv Gandhi Chest Diseases Hospital, Bangalore"]1 (bbb-4) The Chief Administrative Officer in the Office of the Director, Health and Family Welfare Services, may impose on any of the Government servants belonging to Health and Family Welfare Services or Public Health Service Group 'C' and 'D' cadres working under his administrative control in the Office of the Director, any of the penalties specified in clauses (i) to (iva) of rule 8;
(bbb-5) The District Officers, Heads of Institutions, Superintendents of Hospitals, Heads of Offices, Principals, D.M.O., Civil Surgeon may impose on any of the Government servants belonging to Health and Family Welfare Services or Public Health Services Group 'C' and 'D' cadres and working under their Administrative Control in the offices outside the Office of the Director, Health and Family Welfare Services, any of the penalties specified in clauses (i) to (iva) of rule 8".
1. Inserted vide Notification No. DPAR 21 SDE 2003 (II) dated 20-2-2004 (K.G.D. 21-2-2004).
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Explanation: District Officers shall include District Health and Family Welfare Officer, District Surgeon, Principal, HFWTC, Principal, DTC, Superintendent KCG Hospital, Superintendent, Jayanagar General Hospital, Superintendent, HSIS Gosha Hospital, Superintendent, Chest and TB Hospital.]
(c) Any of the penalties specified in rule 8 may be imposed on a member of a State Civil Service by the Appointing Authority or the authority specified in the Schedules in this behalf;
(d) Any of the penalties specified in rule 8 may also be imposed on members of the State Civil Services, Group C and D, by the head of the office in which he is serving, except where the head of that office is lower in rank than the authority competent to impose the penalty under clause (c);
1[Provided that the penalty of fine specified in clause (i) of rule 8 may also be imposed on members of the State Civil Services, Class D, by Gazetted Officers who are in charge of the Ministerial establishment of the Office, and other Non-Gazetted Officers who are in charge of such establishments.]1 2[(e) Any of the penalties specified in rule 8 may be imposed on a member of the State Civil Services, Group C and D belonging to any department (other than the Karnataka Judicial Department]2 by the Deputy Commissioner of the District in which such member is working and an appeal against the order of the Deputy Commissioner under this clause shall lie to the Head of the Department to which such member belongs.
3[(f) The Secretaries to Government may impose the penalties specified in clauses (ii), (iii) and (iiia) of rule 8 on a member of the Karnataka Secretariat Service Group B working under their administrative Control”.]3
1. Added by Notification No. GAD 28 GSR 59, 7-2-1962.
2. Inserted by GSR 186, dated 11-7-1973, w.e.f. 2-8-1973. Notification No.
GAD 12 SSR 73, dated 11-7-1975.
3. Inserted by GSR 152 dated 27-5-1975 w.e.f. 12-12-1975. Notification No.
GAD 12 SSR 75, dated 27-5-1975.
12 (2A) Without prejudice to sub-rule (1) and subject to sub-rule
(3), where a Government servant who is a Member of any class or grade of a State Service (hereinafter in this sub-rule referred to as the 'parent service') is deputed for service of any class or grade of another State Service (hereinafter in this sub-rule referred to as the 'deputed service') the authority which appointed him in the class or grade of the deputed service shall have the powers of the Appointing Authority for placing him under suspension and of the Disciplinary Authority for the purpose of taking a disciplinary proceeding against him:
"Provided that the authority which appointed in the deputed service shall as soon as possible inform the appointing authority in the parent service the circumstances leading to the order of his suspension or the commencement of the disciplinary proceeding, as the case may be".
(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in this rule, no penalty specified in clauses (v) to (viii) of rule 8 shall be imposed by any authority lower than the Appointing Authority.