Charge-sheet and explanation before punishment

Before a Gaon Panchayat or a competent authority, under the Act or these Rules, passes an order of punishment by way of discharge, removal or dismissal, it shall frame a charge or charges against the person concerned and shall give a copy of the same to him and require him within a reasonable time to be specified in the order to submit explanation to the charge or charges, on consideration of which the Gaon Panchayat or the competent authority, as the case may be, shall pass necessary orders.