Pension Rule No.37: Counting Periods Of Suspension

37.  Counting Periods Of Suspension:-

Where a railway servant is kept under suspension pending inquiry into his conduct the period of such suspension shall count as qualifying service only where on conclusion of such inquiry, he has been fully exonerated or the suspension is held to be wholly unjustified and in other cases, the period of such suspension shall not count unless the authority competent to pass orders count under the rule governing such extent as that authority may declare. Where the authority reinstating the railway servant had not passed order as to the treatment of the period of suspension for the purpose of qualifying service for pensionary benefits the period of suspension shall qualify only if it had been treated as duty or leave due, as the case may.