7. Appointment, dismissal, etc., of inferior officers
[Subject to the provisions of Article 311 of the Constitution, and to such rules as the [State Government] may from time to time make under this Act, the Inspector-General, Deputy Inspectors-General, Assistant Inspector-General and District Superintendents of Police may at any time dismiss, suspend or reduce any police-officer of the subordinate ranks] whom they shall think remiss or negligent in the discharge of his duty, or unfit for the same;
or may award any one or more of the following punishments to any police-officer [of the subordinate ranks] who shall discharge his duty in a careless or negligent manner, or who by any act of his own shall render himself unfit for the discharge thereof, namely: —
fine to any amount not exceeding one months pay;
confinement to quarters for a term not exceeding fifteen days, with or without punishmentdrill, extra guard, fatigue or other duty;
deprivation of good-conduct pay;
removal from any office of distinction or special emolument.
Amendment notes (5)
- Subs . Subs. by the A.O. 1950, for "Provincial Government" which had been subs. by the A.O. 1937, for "L.G.".
- Subs . Subs., ibid., for certain words.
- Subs . Subs. by the A.O. 1950 (as amended by C.O. 29), for "Subject to such rules".
- Subs . Subs. by Act 8 of 1895, s. 2, for certain words.v . Ins. by the A.O. 1937.
- . For clause (e), applicable to certain areas in the U.P., see U.P. Act 2 of 1944.