Rule 28 — CCS

28. Condonation of interruption in service.- (1) In the absence of a specific indication to the contrary in the service book, an interruption between two spells of civil service rendered by a Government servant under Government including civil service rendered and paid out of Defence Services Estimates or Railway Estimates shall be treated as automatically condoned and the pre-interruption service treated as qualifying service.

(2) Nothing in sub-rule (1) shall apply to interruption caused by resignation, dismissal or removal from service or for participation in a strike.

(3) The period of interruption referred to in sub-rule (1) shall not count as qualifying service. (4) The appointing authority may consider condonation of interruption in service and to treat the pre-interruption service as qualifying service.

(5) The appointing authority may take a decision not to condone interruption in service only in exceptional and grave circumstances.

(6) No such order against condonation of interruption in service shall be passed by the appointing authority without extending to the Government servant a reasonable opportunity of representation and being heard in person.