Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions
Department of Personnel and Training
North Block, New Delhi-100 001
Dated : 27th February, 2014
Subject : Voluntary retirement under FR 56(k), etc. and amendment of Rules.
The provisions of Fundamental Rule 56(k), 56(m) and Rule 48 of
CCS(Pension) Rules, 1972 relating to acceptance of request of voluntary
retirement have been revisited as per the Central Administrative
Tribunal, Principal Bench judgement dated 4th August, 2010 in
0.A.No.1600/2009 filed by Shri Gopal Singh Purohit Vs UOI & Others
to bring them at par with each other.
2. The matter has ‘been examined in consultation with Department of
Pension and Pensioners Welfare and the Ministry of Law. FR 56(k) and 56
(m) have been amended vide Extra Ordinary Gazette Notification
No.GSR.27(E) dated 17 th January, 2014. It shall be open to the
appropriate authority to withhold permission to a Government servant who
seeks to retire under FR 56(k) or 56 (m) in the following
circumstances:
(i) If the Government servant is under suspension ; or
(ii) If a charge sheet has been issued and the disciplinary proceedings are pending; or
(iii) If judicial proceedings on charges which may amount to grave misconduct, are pending.
Explanation: For the purpose of this clause, judicial proceedings shall
be deemed to be pending, if a complaint or report of a police officer,
of which the Magistrate takes cognizance, has been made or filed in a
criminal proceedings.
3. Copy of the Gazette Notification No.G.S.R.E.(27) dated 17.1.2014 amending FR 56(k) and FR 56(m) is enclosed.
4. All Ministries/Departments are requested to bring the contents of this O.M. to the notice of all concerned.
MINISTRY OF PERSONNEL, PUBLIC GRIEVANCES AND PENSIONS
(Department of Personnel and Training )
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi, the 17th January, 2014
GS.R. – 27(E) In exercise of the powers conferred by the proviso to
article 309 of the Constitution, and in consultation with the
Comptroller and Auditor General in relation to persons serving in the
Indian Audit and Accounts Department, the President hereby makes the
following rule further to amend the Fundamental Rules, 1922, namely :-
I. (1) These rules may be called the Fundamental (First Amendment) Rules, 2014.
(2) They shall came into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
2. In the Fundamental Rule, 1922, in rule 56, –
(a) in clause (k), in sub-clause ( I), for item (c), the following, shall be substituted namely :-
"(c) it shall be open to the Appropriate Authority to withhold
permission to a Government servant, who seeks to retire under this
clause, if,-
(i) the Government servant is under suspension: or
(ii) a charge sheet has been issued and the disciplinary proceedings are pending; or
(iii) if judicial proceedings on charges which may amount to grave misconduct, are pending.
Explanation :- For the purpose of this clause, judicial proceedings
shall be deemed to be pending, if a complaint or report of a police
officer, of which the Magistrate takes cognizance, has been made or
filed in a criminal proceedings.";
(b) for clause (m), the following shall be substituted, namely : –
"(m)A Government servant in Group ‘C’ post who is not governed by any
pension rules, may, by giving notice of not less than three months in
writing to the Appropriate Authority, retire from service after he has
completed thirty years service :
Provided that it shall be open to the Appropriate Authority to withhold
permission to a Government servant, who seeks to retire proceedings."
(i) the Government servant is under suspension: or
(ii) a charge sheet has been issued and the disciplinary proceedings are pending; or
(iii) if judicial proceedings on charges which may amount to grave misconduct, are pending.
Explanation :- For the purpose of this clause, judicial proceedings shall be deemed to be pending, if a complaint or report of a police officer, of which the Magistrate takes cognizance, has been made or filed in a criminal proceedings.";
[No.25013/3/2010-Estt. (A-IV)]
MAMTA KUNDR A, Jt. Secy.
Source : www.persmin.gov.in