# 7 Appointment, dismissal, etc., of inferior officers
2[3[Subject to the provisions of Article 311 of the Constitution, and to such rules as the 1[State Government] may from time to time make under this Act, the Inspector-General, Deputy Inspectors-General, Assistant Inspector-General and District Superintendents of Police may at any time dismiss, suspend or reduce any police-officer of the subordinate ranks] whom they shall think remiss or negligent in the discharge of his duty, or unfit for the same;
4[or may award any one or more of the following punishments to any police-officer 5[of the subordinate ranks] who shall discharge his duty in a careless or negligent manner, or who by any act of his own shall render himself unfit for the discharge thereof, namely: --
(a) fine to any amount not exceeding one months pay;
(b) confinement to quarters for a term not exceeding fifteen days, with or without punishmentdrill, extra guard, fatigue or other duty;
(c) deprivation of good-conduct pay;
(d) removal from any office of distinction or special emolument.]6
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1. Subs. by the A.O. 1950, for "Provincial Government" which had been subs. by the A.O. 1937, for "L.G.".
2. Subs., <i>ibid</i>., for certain words.
3. Subs. by the A.O. 1950 (as amended by C.O. 29), for "Subject to such rules".
4. Subs. by Act 8 of 1895, s. 2, for certain words.v 5. Ins. by the A.O. 1937.
6. For clause (e), applicable to certain areas in the U.P., <i>see</i> U.P. Act 2 of 1944.
