25. Counting of past service on reinstatement :-
(1) A Government servant who is dismissed, removed or
compulsorily retired from service, but is reinstated on appeal or review, is
entitled to count his past service as qualifying service.
(2) The period of interruption in service between the date of
dismissal, removal or compulsory retirement, as the case may be, and the
date of reinstatement and the period of suspension if any, shall not count as
qualifying service unless regularised as duty or leave by a specific order of
the authority which passed the order of reinstatement.