Para 20.12 — MSO

20.12 If in the course of scrutiny of claims an Accounts Officer notices that something more is due to a Government Servant than has actually been claimed he should bring the short payment or over deduction (unless the amount be insignificant) to the notice of the disbursing officer, or to that of the Government Servant direct if he draws his own bills. The Accounts and Entitlement office will have done

General or the Senior Deputy Accountant General/Deputy Accountant General may subject to the limits laid down by the State Government forego recovery on their behalf if he is satisfied that it was drawn by the Government Servant concerned under a reasonable belief that he was entitled to it.

its duty when it has warned the Government Servant that he has a further claim and it cannot compel him to prefer it.