HC urges cash limit for govt servants
K.Kaushik@timesofindia.com 30.08.2026
Madurai: Madras high court has sought a response from the state on the feasibility of issuing uniform guidelines or a GO prescribing the limit of cash that may be possessed by a govt servant while on duty.
Justice B Pugalendhi observed that when almost every payment can be made digitally, the necessity of carrying substantial amounts of cash to office needs to be addressed by govt by fixing a threshold limit. If such a condition is prescribed, it may, to some extent, curb corruption in govt offices.
“The existence of a prescribed limit would also ensure that govt servants are not unnecessarily harassed,” the judge observed. The court was hearing the petition filed by C Kala challenging the order referring her to the tribunal for disciplinary proceedings that she was in possession of 45,000 on Jan 8, 2021, when she was on duty as sub-registrar at Mukkudal in Tirunelveli district.
The petitioner also filed another petition seeking a direction to transfer the proceedings to the tribunal for disciplinary proceedings, Nagercoil in Kanyakumari district. The petitioner’s counsel submitted that Kala had the money for marriage expenses
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