Punjab Police Rules Volume 1 - Sangrur Police

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back on .......(date) and forwarded to accountant" shall forward the foil in question to the
accountant for record. This will ensure copies being available both in lines and the office
for checking travelling allowance bills. The gazetted officer in charge of lines shall
check the railway warrant book once a month and sign each counterfoil in token of having
satisfied himself that its use was really necessary. All the foils received by the accountant
during a month shall then be entered in a statement showing the number, date and amount
of each warrant, and this statement, after being countersigned by the Superintendent, shall
be forwarded to the Accountant-General not later than the 10th of the month following
that to which the warrants relate. These statements will be compared in the Audit Office
with the third foils and bills received from the Railway Department. It is the duty of the
Superintendent when checking foils of Warrants, to satisfy himself that they have all been
properly issued and properly used, and to inflict and recover penalties for improper use.
Any police officer using a railway warrant contrary to these rules shall, in addition to undergoing
such other penalty as a competent authority may award, be required to refund
the amount of the fares entered in the warrant. Such deductions shall be credited in the
treasury, either in cash or by short- drawal.
(b) If the travelling party is required to return to the place of departure, the officer issuing
the warrant for the outward journey shall issue also a second warrant for the return
journey; but if the return journey will start from a station in another province, money for
the purchase of railway fares for such return journey shall be advanced to the ways fares
for such return journey shall be advanced to the officer in charge of the party before it departs
on its outward journey. If a warrant for a return journey is lost or mislaid, the officer
in charge of the party shall obtain an advance for the purchase of necessary fares from the
permanent advance of the nearest police officer, whether in the same or another district.
(3) Members of the Punjab Railway Police whose homes lie in areas not served by the
North-Western Railway may, when proceeding on leave to their homes and returning
from such leave, be granted warrants for the fare by rail to which they are entitled under
Travelling Allowance Rule 2.15, provided that -
(i) they would be eligible for free passes if they were living within an area served
by the North-Western Railway, and
(ii) the number of warrants shall not exceed three return warrants per man in one
year. (Rule 2.120, T.A. Rules).
Note :- The North-Western Railway Administration have agreed to the issue of return tickets (ordinary
or week-end) on presentation of a warrant and use should be made of this concession
whenever the nature of the duty for which the journey is undertaken permits of its utilisation.
The fact that return tickets are required should be indicated by the word "Return" written in
bold letters in red ink across the top of the form.
Rule 10.118
10.118. Tour charges. - (1) arching establishments may be entertained by the following
officers whilst they are in camp and when their camps are necessarily kept up, subject
to the maximum number of the servants shown against them.
Superintendents, Assistant and Deputy Super- One Khalasi at Rs. 13 per mensem.
intendents
Inspector-General and Deputy Inspector-Gen- Two Khalasis at Rs. 13 per mensem each.
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(2) In every case where Government tents are taken by gazetted officers on tour,
whether for their own or their office use or for that of their private servants, half the carriage
will be borne by Government and the other half shall be paid by the officer or
officers using the tents.
(3) Tents occupied by inspectors and sub-inspectors of police (including European sergeants)
on tour, and tents occupied by police guard or chaprasis will be carried wholly at
Government expense. All such charges as well as those incurred in connection with the