40. Compassionate allowance :-
A Government servant who is dismissed or removed from service
shall forfeit his pension and gratuity :
Provided that the authority competent to dismiss or remove him from
service, may, if the case is deserving of special consideration, sanction a
compassionate allowance not exceeding two-thirds of pension or gratuity or
both which would have been admissible to him if he had retired on invalid
pension.