§ MR. WEIRTo ask the Secretary of State for India, having regard to the fact that the pension of a member of the Civil Service has been held in this House to be deferred pay, will he explain why Kanty Chandra Mookerjee, late Extra Assistant Commissioner, Assam, on being dismissed from the Government Service of India in February, 1889, was deprived of the pension which up to that date he had earned in the form of deferred pay during eighteen years service.
(Answer.) I am not aware of any expression of the opinion of this House to the effect stated in the Question; but the rule of the Service in India, as in this country, is that a pension, whether it be regarded as deferred pay or not, may not be granted to an officer removed from the service of Government for misconduct.—(India Office.)