PART - II
DISCIPLINARY PROCEEDINGS AND AUTHORITY

(3) Complaint against the employee:

Whenever any disciplinary authority receives any information or complaint about misconduct or misbehaviour of any Board employee or otherwise is of the opinion that there are good grounds for enquiring into the truth of information or complaint it may do so.

(4) Preliminary Enquiry into the Complaint:

If the information or complaint discloses prima facie material. the disciplinary authority may itself make discreet and confidential enquiries or cause such enquiries to be done by any person authorized in this behalf for the purpose of collecting necessary evidence both oral and documentary.

(5) Appointment of Inquiry Officer:

Whenever the disciplinary authority is of the opinion that there are grounds for inquiring into the truth of any information of misconduct or misbehavior against a Board employee. it may itself inquire into, or appoint under this regulation an authority to inquire into the truth thereof.

(6) Authority to institute disciplinary proceedings:

(a) The Board or any other authority empowered by it by general or special order may

(i) institute disciplinary proceedings against any Board employee;

(ii) direct any disciplinary authority to institute disciplinary proceedings against any Board employee on whom that disciplinary authority is competent to impose under these regulations any of the penalties specified in regulation 9 or regulation 10 .  

(b) A disciplinary authority may impose any of the penalties specified in 9 (A) & (B)

(7) Disciplinary authorities

The authorities competent to impose any of the penalties mentioned in regulation 9 and 10 on each of the categories of employees in various services under the Board are indicated in Appendix.

(8) Lower authority not to re-open the case:

Higher authority can exercise power:

(a) Where in any case a higher authority has imposed or declined to impose a penalty under this regulation a lower authority has no power to proceed under this regulation in respect of the same case.

(b) Where in any case a lower authority has imposed a penalty or exonerated a member of a service it shall not debar a higher authority from exercising his powers under these regulations in respect of the same case. The order of such higher authority shall supersede any order passed by a lower authority in respect of the same case.