# and travelling allowance and other expenses due to him will first be borne by the

- **Citation:** C.L.No.9/VIII-d-9
- **Court:** Allahabad High Court
- **Decided:** 1957-01-21
- **Case number:** C.L.No.9/VIII-d-9
- **Source:** https://unisonlegal.in/judgment/allahabad-high-court/and-travelling-allowance-and-other-expenses-due-to-him-will-first-be-borne-by-163871
- **Pages:** 1

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and travelling allowance and other expenses due to him will first be borne by the
Government under whom he is serving and subsequently be recovered from the Central
Government or the Government of U.P. according as the court in which the officer is
summoned is situate in a Union Territory or in the State of Uttar Pradesh.
C.L.No.9/VIII-d-9 dated 21st January, 1957

The amounts payable as subsistence allowance or compensation for court
attendance to government servants who are subject to the Payment of Wages Act, 1936,
should be deposited by the courts themselves into the treasury to the credit of the
departments concerned. As such employees of the Government of India Press, Aligarh,
summoned by a court for giving evidence in a case should be issued formal court
attendance certificate and the amount of diet money credited in the accounts of the
Government of India Press, Aligarh, adjustable with the Pay and Accounts Officer,
Ministry of W.H. and S., New Delhi, under the head ―Pay and Accounts Officer
Suspense‖.
 To employees of the Insurance Corporation
C.L.No.66 dated 7th November, 1960

Whenever employees of the Life Insurance Corporation of India are called upon
to give evidence in criminal courts in their private capacity, the travelling expenses and
other allowances admissible to ordinary citizens under the rules should be paid to them
by courts concerned and certificates of attendance should not be issued to such
employees.
(iii)
Accounting of payments
C.L. No. 102/VIIIb-108 dated 1st December, 1959

Monies received for payment to witnesses as diet money and travelling
allowances should not be entered in the public account every day.

Such Monies may be utilized for payment to witnesses as and when required
during the month and only the balance at the end of the month deposited in the public
account.
C.L. No.100/VIII e-52 dated 28th July, 1971

Under rule 8(3) (a) of Appendix I of General Rules (Criminal) diet money is
permissible not only for the days of actual detention in court but also for the time
occupied in the journeys to and from the court and the officer ordering payment of diet
money is authorized to determine the number of days which should be allowed for the
journey to and from the court.
C.L.No.129/X b-2, (J.O.) dated 18th December, 1972
Diet money, etc., relating to the courts of the Chief Judicial Magistrates and
judicial officers* should be paid from the head ―21-Administration of Justice-non-Plan-FCriminal Courts‖**

* NOTE: Now Judicial Magistrates.
** NOTE: Now changed to 2014