Where an order of penalty of withholding of increment of a Government servant or his reduction to a lower service, grade or post or to a lower time-scale, or to a lower stage in a time-scale, is set aside or modified by a competent authority on appeal or review, the pay of the Government servant shall, notwithstanding anything contained in these rules, be regulated in the following manner :
(a) If the said order is set aside, he shall be given, for the period such order has been in force, the difference between the pay to which he would have been entitled had that order not been made and the pay he had actually drawn ;
(b) If the said order is modified, the pay shall be regulated as if the order as so modified had been made in the first instance.
Explanation : —If the pay drawn by a Government servant in respect of any period prior to the issue of the orders of the competent authority under this rule is revised, the leave salary and allowances (other than travelling allowance) if any, admissible to him during that period shall be revised on the basis of the revised pay.