57 General

1. Every employee shall at all times maintain absolute integrity and devotion to duty.
2. Every employee shall abide by and comply with the rules and byelaws of the Institute and all orders and directions of his superior authorities.

Discipline
58 Suspension

1. The Appointing Authority or any other authority superior thereto may place an employee under suspension.
   1. where a disciplinary proceeding against him is contemplated or is pending, or
   2. where a case against him in respect of any criminal offences is under investigation or trail
2. An employee who is detained in custody, whether on a criminal charge or otherwise, for a period exceeding forty-eight hours shall be deemed to have been suspended with effect from the date of his detention, by an order of the Appointing Authority in and shall remain under suspension until further orders.
3. An order of suspension made or deemed to have been made under this byelaw may at any time be revoked by the authority which makes or it deemed to have made it, or by any superior authority

59 Penalties
The following penlites may, for good and sufficient reasons and as hereinafter provided, be imposed on an employee:

1. Censure;
2. withholding of increments or promotion;
3. ecovery from pay of the whole or part of any pecuniary loss caused to the Institute by negligence or breach of the rules or bye-laws of the Institute or orders or directions of superior authorities
4. reduction to a lower grade or post or to a lower stage in a time-scale;
5. compulsary retirement, and
6. dismissal from service

60 Authority Competent to impose a Penalty
The appointing authority or any other authority referred to in bye-law 6 which may be superior to the Appointing Authority may impose on an employee any of the penalties specified in bye-law 59.

61 procedure for imposing penalties
No order imposing any penalty on an employee shall be passed except after:

1. the employee is informed in writing of the proposal to take action against him and of the allegation on which it is proposed to be taken and is given an opportunity to make any representation he may wish to make; and
2. such representation, if any, is taken into consideration by the authority, imposing the penalty.

62 Special Provision Regarding Borrowed Employees

1. Where an order of suspension is made or a disciplinary proceeding is commended against a borrowed employee, the lending authority shall forthwith be informed of the circumstances leading to the order of suspension or commencement of the disciplinary proceeding, as the case may be.
2. In the light of the finding in the disciplinary proceeding taken against such employee:
   1. If the authority imposing the penality is of the opinion that any of the penalities specified in cluase(iv) to (vi) of bye-law 59 should be imposed on him, it shall replace his service at the disposal of the lending authority and transmit to it the proceedings of the inquiry for such action as it deems necessary; and
   2. if the authority imposing the penality is of the opinion that lending authority and the authority imposing the penality, the service of the employee shall be replaced at the disposal of the lending authority.
      
      Provided that in the event of a difference of opinion between the lending authority and the authority imposing the, penality, the services of the employee shall be replaced at the disposal of the lending authority.

Explanation
In this bye-laws, the expression "lending authority" means the authority which has placed the service of the borrowed employee at the disposal of the Institute.