Postal Manual Vol. VIII - India Post

een apprehended or until the police intimate
that his name has been removed from their
register.
(26) Cases in which invalid or extraordinary
pensions have been
sanctioned.
Other pension cases
25 years from the date the pension is sanctioned
5 years after retirement.
(27) Public and Regimental accounts One year after the cases are closed.
(28) Rulings on all subjects Permanent.
(29) Registers of –
(a) Registered newspapers
(b) Policies assigned
(c) Losses with index }
(d) Absconders
(e) Correspondence received
(f) Security bonds
Permanent.
Three years after the Registers are used up.
Three years after a new register has been
prepared.
(g) Other kinds
(30) Returns regarding pension or
gratuity.
Till they have become obsolete.
One year after they are closed.
(31) Returns of other kinds. One year after the year in which they are
received.
(32) Service Books and Service Rolls of
officials who have not retired on
pension.
(33) Savings Bank accounts of deceased
depositors.
(34) Claims to postal certificates of
deceased holders.
(34-A) Affidavits, certificates from
income-tax authorities or indemnity
bond executed by the partners of
the unregistered firms (holders of
Five years after the month in which the officials
concerned severed connection with the
Department, except in the case of absconders
when the records should not be destroyed
without the special permission of the Head of the
Circle.
Three years after the accounts are closed, except
where withdrawals are allowed on an indemnity
bond in which case the papers be preserved for
six years after the accounts are closed.
Three years after payment is made except where
payment is made on an indemnity bond in which
case the papers, together with the bond, should
be preserved for six years after the month in
which payment is made.
Three years after payment is made except where
payment is made on an indemnity bond in which
case the papers together with the bond, should be
preserved for six years after the month in which