Articles in this category Minor Penalties Minor Penalties: (i) censure; (ii) withholding of promotion; 33(iii) recovery from pay of the whole, or part of any pecuniary loss caused to Government, or to a company, association or body of individ... Major Penalties Major Penalties: (v) reduction to a lower stage in the time scale of pay for a specified period with further directions as to whether or not the member of the Service will earn increments during the p... Authority to institute proceedings and to impose penalty Authority to institute proceedings and to impose penalty— 39(1) Where a member of the Service has committed any act or omission which renders him liable to any penalty specified in rule 6— (a) if such... Procedure for imposing major penalties Source : THE ALL INDIA SERVICES (DISCIPLINE AND APPEAL) RULES, 1969 Procedure for imposing major penalties.— 8(1) No order imposing any of the major penalties specified in rule 6 shall be made exce... Action on the inquiry report. 9. Action on the inquiry report.— 9(1) The disciplinary authority may, for reasons to be recorded by it in writing, remit the case to inquiring authority for further inquiry and report, and the inquir... Procedure for imposing minor penalties Procedure for imposing minor penalties— 53 Substituted vide Notification No. 11018/01/2016-AIS-III, dt. 20.01.2017 (GSR No. 59(E) dt. 20.01.2017) 54 Substituted vide Notification No. 11018/01/2016-AIS...