Section 2(1)(ii) in All India Services (Death-Cum-Retirement Benefits) Rules, 1958
(ii)If during the last [ten months] [Substituted w.e.f. 1.3.76 vide Notification No. 11024/4/76-AIS(II) dated 7.12.77 (GSR No. 1700 dated 24.12.77).] of his service a member of the Service has been absent from duty on leave without allowances (not counting of pension) or suspended under such circumstances that the period so passed does not count as qualifying service, the period of such leave or suspension shall be disregarded in the calculation of the average, an equal period before the ten months being included.