16.1 Any officer or employee who commits a breach of any regulations or orders of the Corporation, or is guilty of negligence, inefficiency or indolence in the performance of his duties, or knowingly does any thing detrimental to the interests of the Corporation, or commits a breach of discipline, or is guilty of any other act of misconduct, or is convicted of a criminal offence, shall be liable to the following penalties :-
(i) censure ;
(ii) stoppage of increment(s)
(iii) recovery from pay and allowances of the whole or part of the pecuniary loss caused to the Corporation;
(iv) reduction to a post in lower scale of pay or to a lower stage in his time scale of pay;
(v) removal;
(vi) dismissal; or
(vii) combination of any of the above.
16.2 The powers to impose a penalty under (iv) to (vii) above shall be exercised only by the appointing authority.
Provided that no penalty under (iv) to (vi) above or a combination thereof, shall be imposed without charge-sheeting him and without giving him an opportunity of being heard :
Provided further that no penalty under (i) to (iii) above or a combination thereof shall be awarded without giving him an opportunity to explain his conduct.
17. Suspension -
17.1 An Officer or employee may be placed under suspension pending an inquiry against him instituted under the first proviso regulation 16.2 or if any proceedings have been instituted against him in respect of criminal offence involving moral turpitude.
17.2 The pay and allowances of an officer or employee during the period of suspension shall be regulated by the relevant rules of Government in force at that time.