law: Sashastra Seema Bal Act, 2007 
  Chapter V Deductions from Pay and Allowances
  61.  Deductions from pay and allowances of
  
  persons subject to this Act.
  1.       The
  
  following deductions may be made from the pay and allowances of an officer,
  
  namely:.
  a.     
  
    all pay and allowances due to an officer for every day he
  
  absents himself without leave, unless a satisfactory explanation has been given
  
  to, and accepted by, the Inspector-General under whom he is for the time being
  
  serving;
  b.    
  
    all pay and allowances for every day while he is in custody on a
  
  charge for an offence for which he is afterwards convicted by a criminal court
  
  or Force Court or by an officer exercising authority under section 58;
  c.     
  
    any sum required to make good the pay of any person subject to
  
  this Act which he has unlawfully retained or unlawfully refused to pay;
  d.    
  
    any sum required to make good such compensation for any
  
  expenses, loss, damage or destruction occasioned by the commission of an
  
  offence as may be determined by the Force Court by whom he is convicted of such
  
  offence or by an officer exercising authority under section 58;
  e.     
  
    all pay and allowances ordered by Force Court;
  f.     
  
    any sum required to be paid as fine awarded by a criminal court
  
  or a Force Court;
  g.    
  
    any sum required to make good any loss, damage or destruction of
  
  public or Force property which, after due investigation, appears to the
  
  Inspector-General under whom the officer is for the time being serving, to have
  
  been occasioned by the wrongful act or negligence on the part of the officer;
  h.     
  
    all pay and allowances forfeited by order of the Central
  
  Government if the officer is found by a court of inquiry constituted by the
  
  Director-General in this behalf, to have deserted to the enemy, or while in
  
  enemy hands, to have served with, or under the orders of, the enemy, or in any
  
  manner to have aided the enemy, or to have allowed himself to be taken prisoner
  
  by the enemy through want of due precaution or through disobedience of orders
  
  or wilful neglect of duty, or having been taken prisoner by the enemy, to have
  
  failed to rejoin his service when it was possible to do so;
  i.      
  
    any sum required by order of the Central Government to be paid
  
  for the maintenance of his wife or his legitimate or illegitimate child or step
  
  child or towards the cost of any relief given by the said Government to the
  
  said wife or child.
  1.     
  
   
  2.       Subject
  
  to the provisions of section 63, the following deductions may be made from the
  
  pay and allowances of a person subject to this Act, other than an officer,
  
  namely:.
  a.     
  
    all pay and allowances for every day of absence either on
  
  desertion or without leave or as a prisoner of war unless a satisfactory
  
  explanation has been given and accepted by his commanding officer and for every
  
  day of imprisonment awarded by a criminal court, Force Court or an officer
  
  exercising authority under section 56;
  b.    
  
    all pay and allowances for every day while he is in custody on a
  
  charge for an offence of which he is afterwards convicted by a criminal court
  
  or Force Court or on a charge of absence without leave for which he is
  
  afterwards awarded imprisonment by an officer exercising authority under
  
  section 56;
  c.     
  
    all pay and allowances for every day on which he is in hospital
  
  on account of sickness certified by the medical officer attending on him to
  
  have been caused by an offence under this Act committed by him;
  d.    
  
    all pay and allowances for every day on which he is in hospital
  
  on account of sickness certified by the medical officer attending on him to
  
  have been caused by his own misconduct or imprudence, such sum as may be
  
  specified by the order of the Director-General;
  e.     
  
    all pay and allowances ordered by Force Court or by an officer
  
  exercising authority under any of the sections 56 and 58 to be forfeited or
  
  stopped;
  f.     
  
    all pay and allowances for every day between his being recovered
  
  from the enemy and his dismissal from the service in consequence of his conduct
  
  when being taken prisoner by, or while in the hands of the enemy;
  g.    
  
    any sum required to make good such compensation for any expenses,
  
  loss, damage or destruction caused by him to the Central Government or to any
  
  building or property or any private fund of the Force as may be awarded by his
  
  commanding officer;
  h.     
  
    any sum required to pay a fine awarded by a criminal court,
  
  Force Court exercising jurisdiction under section 49 or an officer exercising
  
  authority under any of the sections 56 and 60;
  i.      
  
    any sum required by order of the Central Government or any
  
  prescribed officer to be paid for the maintenance of his wife, or his legitimate
  
  or illegitimate child or step child or towards the cost of any relief given by
  
  the said Government to the said wife or child.
  3.       For
  
  computation of time of absence or custody under this section,
  a.     
  
    no person shall be treated as absent or in custody for a day
  
  unless the absence or custody has lasted, whether wholly in one day, or partly
  
  in one day and partly in another for six consecutive hours or upwards;
  b.    
  
    any absence or custody for less than a day may be reckoned as
  
  absence or custody for a day, if such absence or custody prevented the absentee
  
  from fulfilling any duty as member of the Force which was thereby thrown upon
  
  some other person;
  c.     
  
    absence or custody for twelve consecutive hours or upwards may
  
  be reckoned as absence or custody for the whole of each day during any portion
  
  of which the person was absent or in custody;
  d.    
  
    a period of absence, or imprisonment, which commences before,
  
  and ends after, midnight may be reckoned as a day.