GOVERNMENT  OF  MAHARASHTRA
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MAHARASHTRA ACT  No.  XLIV  OF  1965.

THE  MAHARASHTRA  GOVERNMENT
SERVANTS  INQUIRIES
(EVIDENCE  OF  CORRUPTION)  ACT,  1965.

(  As  modified  upto  the  29th  January,  2018)

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THE  MAHARASHTRA  GOVERNMENT  SERVANTS  INQUIRIES
(EVIDENCE  OF  CORRUPTION) ACT,  1965.

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CONTENTS.

PREAMBLE.

SECTIONS.

1.

Short  title.

2. Definition.

3.

Presumption  of  misconduct.

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MAHARASHTRA ACT  No.  XLIV  OF  19651

[THE  MAHARASHTRA  GOVERNMENT  SERVANTS  INQUIRIES  (EVIDENCE OF  CORRUPTION)
ACT,  1965].

[26th  October  1965].

(This  Act  received  the  assent  of  the  President  on  the  17th  October  1965  ;
assent  was  first  published  in  the Maharashtra  Government  Gazette, Part  IV,
Extraordinary,  on  the  26th  October  1965.)

An Act  to  make  better  provision  for  dealing  with  corruption  among  public
servants.

WHEREAS  it  is  necessary  to  make  provision  for  the  more  effective  dealing  with
public  servants  accused  of  corruption,  and  for  that  purpose  to  provide  for  a  presumption
of  misconduct  in  certain  circumstances  ;  It  is  hereby  enacted  in  the  Sixteenth  Year  of
the  Republic  India  as  follows  :—

1. This  Act  may  be  called  the  Maharashtra  Government  Servants  Inquiries

Short  title.

(Evidence  of  Corruption)  Act,  1965.

2. In  this  Act,  unless  the  context  otherwise  requires,  “Government  Servant”  means
a  person  appointed  to  any  public  service  or  post  in  connection  with  the  affairs  of  the
State  of  Maharashtra,  whose  conditions  of  service  the  State  Legislature  is  competent
to  regulate.

Definition.

3. If  in  an  inquiry  held  against  a  Government  servant  for  corruption,  it  is  proved
that  the  Government  servant  or  any  person  on  his  behalf  is  in  possession,  or  has,  at
any  time  during  the  period  of  office  of  such  servant,  been  in  possession,  for  which
such  servant  cannot  satisfactorily  account,  of  pecuniary  resources  or  property
disproportionate  to  his  known  sources  of  income,  then  on  such  proof  the  Inquiry
Officer  and  any  other  authority  concerned  shall  presume,  unless  the  contrary  is  proved,
that  such  servant  is  guilty  of  misconduct.

Presumption
of misconduct.

1 For  Statement  of  Objects  and  Reasons  see Maharashtra  Government  Gazette, 1965,  Part  V,

Extra.,  p.  271.

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