returns of immovable property submitted by officers of the Central Secretariat Service and the Central Secretariat Stenographer’s Service.

(7) No regular and continuous scrutiny necessary in case of returns of immovable property submitted by officers of the Central Secretariat Service and the Central Secretariat Stenographer’s Service.

Paragraph 2 of this Ministry’s Office Memorandum No. 25/10/55-Ests.(A) dated the 12th January, 1956, (Decision No. 10 above) stated that the returns of immovable property required to be submitted under Rule 15 of the Central Civil Services (Conduct) Rules, 1955, (now Rule 18), shall be treated as secret and shall after such scrutiny, as may be considered necessary be kept in the custody of the authority which maintains the character rolls of the officers concerned. It has now been decided that in so far as the Central Secretariat Service and the Central Secretariat Stenographers’ Service are concerned, there need be no regular and continuous scrutiny of the property returns submitted by the officers of these Services and that the returns need be scrutinized by the officers only if and when there is ground for suspicion in any particular case. The Ministries etc., need not therefore, undertake any regular scrutiny of these returns when submitted by the officers and the returns may, as and when they are received from the officers, be passed on to the authority which maintains Character Roll of the officers.

2. As the Character Rolls of offices of the Selection Grade and Grade I-III of the Central Secretariat Service, and also those of officers of Grade I of the Central Secretariat Stenographers’ Service are maintained by the Establishment Officer to the Government of India (Ministry of Home Affairs), the returns of immovable property of these officers should, no receipt from the officers, as be directly transmitted to the Office of the Establishment Officer for record.

[MHA OM No. 12/9/58-CS (A), dated 21.06.1958]