Procedure to be observed in awarding punishment.

When any officer passes an order for fining, suspending, reducing, removing or dismissing a Police officer, be shall record such order or cause the same to be recorded, together with the reasons therefore and a note of the inquiry made, in writing, under his signature. Provided that no order for reducing, removing or dismissing a Police officer shall be passed without giving him a reasonable opportunity of showing cause against the action proposed to be taken against him except in cases referred to in the proviso (a) to CI. (2) of Art. 311 of the Constitution.