Review u/r 25-A: RBE No.106/2025 – Action for Employment by False Information
No.E(D&A) 2025 RG6-12, dated 17.10.2025
Sub: Action against a person who secures appointment in Railway service by furnishing false information or suppressing facts of previous employment/ dismissal therefrom in the Attestation Form – reg.
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ANNEXURE
Sub: Action against a person who secures appointment in Railway service by furnishing false information or suppressing facts of previous employment/ dismissal therefrom in the Attestation Form – reg.
Ref: Railway Board’s letter No.E(D&A) 2025 RG6-12, dated 17.10.2025 (RBE No.106/2025).
1. A case has come to the notice of Railway Board where after the appointment of a person in Railway service, the Zonal Railway concerned got to know that prior to this appointment, the said person was already employed in Railway service in an another Zonal Railway and had been dismissed from service in his previous employment. Prosecution for a criminal charge relating to the period of his service in the previous employment was also pending against him. The person concerned, however, did not mention either of the above two facts in the Attestation Form filled by him at the time of appointment. During the process of appointment, he was also convicted in the criminal case mentioned aforesaid but he suppressed this fact also.
2. Arising out of new facts that came to the notice as mentioned in para 1 above, the Railway administration where the person concerned was employed issued him a show cause notice under rule 14(i) of Railway Servants (Discipline and Appeal) Rules, 1968 proposing to impose on him the penalty of ‘dismissal from service’ on account of the conduct which led to his conviction in the criminal case. On consideration of the reply to the show cause notice, Railway administration however, withdrawn the show cause notice issued under rule 14 (i) and instead issued the person concerned a charge sheet for major penalty under rule 9 of Railway Servants (Discipline and Appeal) Rules, 1968 on charges of suppressing the fact of his dismissal from service in the previous employment and suppressing the fact of his conviction in a criminal case. On conclusion of the disciplinary, proceedings, the disciplinary authority imposed on the-person concerned the penalty of removal from service which has been confirmed in appeal by the Appellate Authority.
3. Zonal Railway have referred the disciplinary case to Board’s office for ‘Review’ under rule 25-A of Railway Servants (Discipline and Appeal) Rules, 1968 on account of the orders passed by the Revisionary Authority whereby the penalty of removal from service has been set aside and a lesser penalty which involve reinstatement of the person concerned in service has been imposed.
4. On consideration of the case records, Railway Board have held that the referred case do not satisfy the criteria laid down for conducting ‘Review’ under rule 25-A of Railway Servants (Discipline and Appeal) Rules, 1968. Hence, ‘Review’ under rule 25-A is not maintainable.
Download Railway Board Circular RBE No.106/2025
Forward reference ⇒ RBE No.