12. Responding to Ms. Lakra’s submission, Mr. Behera submits that Rules 8 and 9 envisage a specific scheme of the proceedings. Rule 8 contains the provisions relating to holding of the inquiry. Once an inquiry has been held in accordance with Rule 8, the IO submits an Inquiry Report. The manner in which the Inquiry Report is to be dealt with is contained in Rule 9. The various provisions of Rule 9 have also, he submits, to be followed in sequence. Rule 9 (1) no doubt, enables the DA to refer the matter to the IO for a fresh inquiry, but that has to be done on receipt of the Inquiry Report. Once the DA has forwarded the Inquiry Report to the CVC and obtained the second stage advice of the CVC and, even more importantly, once the Inquiry Report had been provided to the charged officer, and the entire defence of the charged officer to the findings of the IO were revealed to the DA, the DA could not then put the clock back and revert to Rule 9(1) for a fresh inquiry. This would enable the DA, he submits, in every case, to fill up lacunae in the case of the department with a view to somehow “fix” the charged officer. That, he submits, is neither the intent nor the purpose of Rule 9(1) of the AIS (D & A) Rules.