(1) No Sansthan employee shall, except with the previous sanction of the Committee, have recourse to any court or to the press for the vindication of any official act which has been the subject matter of adverse criticism or an attack of defamatory character.
(2) Nothing in sub-regulation (1) shall be deemed to prohibit a Sansthan employees from vindicating his private character or any act done by him in his private capacity and, where any action for vindicating his private character or any act done by him in private capacity is taken, the Sansthan employee shall submit a report to the Executive Officer regarding such action.
(3) In according sanction under sub-regulation (1)-
(a) the Committee shall in each case decide-
(i) whether it will itself bear the costs of the proceedings; or
(it) whether the Sansthan employee will institute the proceedings at his own cost, and if so, whether in the event of Sansthan employee succeeding therein, the Committee will SH reimburse him to the extent of the whole or any part of the cost incurred by him as is in excess of the cost or damages if any, awarded to him by the court; and
(b) where the Committee decides to bear the costs of proceedings instituted by a Sansthan employee, it shall be expressly stated that the amount of compensation, damages or costs awarded by the Court, if any, to the Sansthan employee shall be first set off against the cost borne by the Committee and the balance, if any, shall only be retained by the Sansthan employee .