An instance has come to the notice of the Government where a Government servant conducted enquiries on the receipt of petitions containing allegations of corruption against himself. Instruction 1 (b) of the instructions in Appendix VI to the Classification, Control & Appeal Rules provides that the preliminary enquiry may be made by an officer under whose administrative control the officer alleged to be at fault is working or was working at the time the acts complained of were committed. In view of this, the preliminary enquiry should be made only by the officer who is superior to the officer alleged to be at fault and it should not be made by the officer alleged to be at fault.
2. It is therefore, clarified that no Government servant should conduct enquiries on the receipt of petitions containing allegations against himself.
