Section 10 of the Indian Independence Act provides or the Secretary of State 's Services and lays down that every person who having been appointed by the Secretary of State, or Secretary of State in Council, to a civil service of the Crown in India continues on and after the appointed day to serve under the Government of either of the new Dominions or of any Province or part thereof, shall be entitled to receive the same conditions of service as respects remuneration, leave and pension and the same rights as respects disciplinary matters or, as the case may be, as respects the tenure of his office, or rights as similar thereto as changed circumstances may permit as that person was entitled to immediately before the appointed day, i.e. August 15, 1947 By virtue of this provision those members of the Secretary of State 's Services who continued to serve the Government of India or the Government of any Province from August 15, 1947, were entitled to the protection of section 10.