Accordingly Government hereby orders that the pension and Death cum Retirement Gratuity, which may be accepted by the Accountant Gener al, Ahmedabad as admissible under the rules shall be reduced by the specified extents aS under: (i) Amount of reduction in pension = 50% (Fifty percent) (ii) Amount of reduction in gratuity = 50% (Fifty percent)." According to the respondent, the appellant instead of giving a proper explanation to the show cause notice dated 17.7.1971 entered into long correspondence with respondent raising all sorts of irrelevant questions and seeking sever al adjournments thereby adopting delayed tactics and further the appellant though informed the authorities that he would inspect certain documents in the Department for making his 229 reply, he would not do so and therefore according to the learned counsel it was in those circumstances, the Govern ment was constrained to pass this order dated 15.11.1977 after a lapse of more than 6 years taking into consideration that his service had not been found thoroughly satisfactory for the reasons mentioned in the show cause notice to which he had not given any reply.