GOVERNMENT
OF ANDHRA PRADESH
GENERAL
ADMINISTRATION (SPL-B) DEPARTMENT
Cir.Memo.No.
2045/Spl. B/2000-4. Dated: 25-05-2001.
Sub: Combating corruption
in public services - Recommendations of APVC Suspension of Accused officers
involved in trap cases – Instructions - Reiteratment.
Ref: 1. Memo. No. 240/SC.D/93-3, GAD, dt.
05-10-1993.
2. Memo. No.
554/Ser. C/93-6, GAD, dt. 26-12-1994.
3. Memo. No. 713/
Ser. C/94-1, GAD, dt. 24-04-1995.
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The
attention of all Departments of Secretariat, all Heads of Departments and all
District Collectors are invited to the instructions issued in the references
cited. In the references first and second cited. instructions were issued that,
where the Accused Officer is caught red-handed in the act of accepting bribe
and where the phenolphthalein test has Yielded positive result, such cases can
be classified as successful trap and the Charged officer has to be placed under
suspension on the preliminary report received from the Anti-Corruption Bureau.
In the Memo. third cited, further instructions were issued to the Competent
Authorities to suspend the Accused officer even without waiting for
recommendations of the Vigilance Commissioner in cases where the Accused
officer is caught red-handed, and the phenolphthalein test yielded positive
result.
2. While reiterating the above instructions,
Competent Authorities are requested to place the Trapped officer under
suspension pending prosecution without the need for any instructions from any
quarter, as soon as an intimation giving details of the trap is tendered by the
Anti-Corruption Bureau.
3. All Departments of Secretariat, all Heads
of Departments and all District Collectors are requested to follow the above
instructions scrupulously and also communicate the same to the concerned
Disciplinary Authorities under their control for their guidance.
P.V.RAO
Chief
Secretary to Government
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