section 43
Punishment of office-holders and servants of religious institutions
The Odisha Hindu Religious Endowments (Amendment) Act, 2018Civil201889 sections
Statutory text
- (1) All office-holders and servants attached to a religious institution or in receipt of any emolument or perquisite from the institution shall, whether the office or service is hereditary or not, be controlled by the trustee; and the trustee may fine, suspend, remove or dismiss any of them for breach of trust, in capacity, disobedience of orders, neglect of duty, misconduct or for any other sufficient cause.
- (2) Any office-holder or servant punished by a trustee under sub-section (1) may, within one month from the date of the communication of the order to him, prefer an appeal before the Board whose order thereon shall be final.
- (3) If any such office-holder or servant against whom an order of fine, suspension, removal or dismissal has been made by the trustee or the Board, as the case may be, disobeys such order, he shall, unless he shows reasonable cause to the satisfaction of the Board, be liable to pay to the Endowment Fund within such date as may be specified in the order such penalty not exceeding two hundred rupees and in case of default a daily fine not exceeding twenty rupees. The penalty to be paid by such person shall in no case be paid from the fund of the institution concerned.
- (4) If such penalty is not paid within the time fixed or within such futher time as may be granted by the Board, the Collector of the district, in which any property of the person against whom an order is made under sub-section (3) is situate, shall, on a requisition made to him by the Board, recover the amount as if it were an arrear of land revenue.
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