Instructions relating to payment of travelling and other expenses to witnesses in departmental enquiries

The following instructions are issued to regulate the payment of travelling and other expenses to persons appearing as witnesses in Departmental Enquiries: 1. Every person, whether he is a State or Central Government servant or not, who is called to give evidence in a departmental Enquiry by either the Government or the Government servant against whom the enquiry is made shall be entitled to payment of travelling and other expenses as laid down in these instructions. 2. The Officer or Board holding the enquiry shall furnish a certificate in form T to every person appearing before him or it to give evidence. 3. (i) Where the witness is a Government servant of this State he shall be entitled to receive, in respect of the attendance before the authority holding the departmental enquiry from the Department under which he is serving for the time being, payment of travelling allowance as on tour, under S.R. 112. (ii) Where the Government servant is called in the departmental enquiry to give evidence as to facts which have come to his knowledge in the discharge of his public duties, the minimum time required to be spent by him on the journey to and from the place where the enquiry is held and the days on which he is required to remain present before the authority holding the enquiry shall be treated as duty: Provided that if the Government servant is on leave the entire time spent shall be treated as part of the leave and he shall not be deemed to have been recalled to duty. (iii) Where a Government servant is called by any authority holding the departmental enquiry to give evidence as to facts which have come to his knowledge at a time when he was not in Government service, he may be paid travelling allowance as provided in sub-rule (i). 4. Where the witness is a servant of the Government of India or any other state Government, he shall be entitled to receive in respect of the attendance before the authority holding the departmental enquiry, from the central or the state Government concerned, such travelling allowance and/or daily allowance as may be admissible to him under the rules applicable to him in that behalf in respect of a journey undertaken on tour and the amount so paid shall be paid by this state Government to the central Government or the state Government concerned who shall raise a debit in respect thereof against this state Government.