27.4.2009 Present: None for the petitioner. Mr. R. K. Sharma, Sr. Addl. A. G. & Mr. Anil Jaswal, Dy. A. G. for the respondents. CWP(T) No.3711/08 (OA 264/96) Actual date notice had been issued to the petitioner as also his counsel for today. However, inspite of pass over, none has caused appearance. Hence, in the absence of the petitioner, the matter is being decided. Rule 4 of IPS Uniform Rules 1954 is as under:- (i) Every member of the service shall on appointment thereto, be entitled to receive from the Govt. an initial grant of one thousand rupees and at each interval of seven years thereafter, a renewal grant of eight hundred rupees towards the cost and maintenance of his uniform; Provided that the Government may withhold any such grant from a member of the service who is due to retire within two year of the date when the grant is due; Provided further that where an officer of a State Police Service is appointed to the service and the Government certify that a substantially large number of articles constituting the uniform of such officer are common with those prescribed for members of the service under these rules such officer shall, on appointment to the service, be entitled to receive only a sum equal to the difference between the uniform grant admissible under this rule and the uniform grant last drawn by him as an officer of the State Police Service and the period of seven years for the purpose of the next grant under this rule shall in his case, be computed from the date on which the uniform grant was last drawn by him as such officer. (2) The Central Government may at any time, in consultation with the State Governments concerned, alter the amount of uniform grant admissible under this rule.” The petitioner was to retire within two years, hence being ineligible, the respondents rightly did not grant the same to him. In this view of the matter, the present petition being devoid of merit is dismissed. ( Sanjay Karol ), Judge. April 27, 2009 (rana)