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173. A service personnel who is taken action shall be suspended temporarily in the following conditions:
(a) a service personnel is detained in custody or being prosecuted;
(b) a service personnel is likely to be punished with any severe offence such as reduction of pay within pay scale or demotion or removal from a postor dismissal from being a service personnel in respect of departmental action if it is found that he is guilty;
(c) there is a circumstance in which the service personnel might destroy evidence or amend and cheat the accounts or prejudice the proceedings by using the influence of official position for leading to impediment to find out the truth if he is not being suspended;
(d) continuation of the service personnel at work without suspending temporarily from his duty may be harmful to the interests of the relevant service personnel organization.