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Misbehaviour

cl. 2 of Inquiries Act is not vague; it would certainly mean a lapse from proper standard of conduct in discharge of functions as a government servant. Every dishonest act of government servant amounts to 'misbehaviour', R.P.

Modesty

Modesty, as 'womanly propriety of behaviour; scrupulous chastity of thought, speech and conduct; reserve or sense of shame proceeding from instinctive aversion to impure or coarse suggestions, Oxford English Dictionary (1993

Actus reus

Boyce, Criminal Law 831, 3rd Edn., 1982. The word actus connotes a 'deed', a physical result of human conduct. When criminal policy regards such a deed as sufficiently harmful it prohibits it and seeks to prevent its

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Fraud

even the most solemn proceedings in any civilised system of jurispru-dence. It is a concept descriptive of human conduct. Michael Levi likes a fraudster to Milton's sorcerer, Comus who exulted in his ability to, 'wing me into

Power of Court to order meeting to be called

general meeting, in any manner in which meetings of the company may be called, or to hold or conduct the meeting of the company in the manner prescribed by this Act or the articles, the Court may,

Proceeding

or authorities determining rights and liabilities and in which actions are brought and defended and the manner of conducting them and the mode of deciding them. All these happenings or events before a labour court or industrial

Violence

vehement passionate furious impetus and vivid, Ibrahimkutty v. State of Kerala, (1984) Ker LT 700. Means any violent conduct, so that-(a) except in the context of affray, it includes violent conduct to-wards property as well as violent

Acts and omissions

context of the All India Services (Conduct) Rules, 1954 ('Conduct Rules' for short). The Government has prescribed by Conduct Rules a code of conduct for the members of All India Services, Union of India v. J. Ahmed,'AIR

Investigation

Proce-dure, 1898 defines 'investigation' as to include all the proceedings under that Code for the collection of evidence conducted by the police officer or other persons other than a Magistrate in this behalf. Under the Code 'investigation

Representation

treated as representation and considered by the Petitions Committee, representations relating to the proceedings in the House or conduct of member are also considered by Petitions Committee Practice and Procedures of Parliament, M.N. Kaul and S.L. Shakdher,

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