3[4[Subject to the provisions of article 311 of the Constitution, and to such rules] as the 1[State Government] may from time to time make under this Act, the Inspector-General, Deputy Inspectors-General, Assistant Inspector-General and District Superintendents of Police may at any time dismiss, suspend or reduce any police-officer of the subordinate ranks] whom they shall think remiss or negligent in the discharge of his duty, or unfit for the same;
5[or may award any one or more of the following punishments to any police-officer 6[of the subordinate ranks] who shall discharge his duty in a careless or negligent manner, or who by any act of his own shall render himself unfit for the discharge thereof, namely: —
(a)fine to any amount not exceeding one month’s pay;
(b)confinement to quarters for a term not exceeding fifteen days, with or without punishment- drill, extra guard, fatigue or other duty;
(c)deprivation of good-conduct pay;
(d)removal from any office of distinction or special emolument.]7