Government Servants' Conduct Rules.

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — India. – in the House of Commons at on 8 December 1920.

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asked the Secretary of State for India whether, considering that Rule 22 of the Government Servants' Conduct Rules lays down that no Government servant shall subscribe in aid of any political move in India, instructions were issued by the Government of India for bidding Government servants to contribute to the Tilak fund, the Paisa fund, and other funds of an obviously political character; and if such instructions were not issued in these cases, why the Dyer fund was selected by the Government of India as an occasion calling for special prohibition?

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