prejudice to Civil Appeal @ SLP (C) No.4106/2021 Page 19 of 38the generality of the power conferred by sub-section (1) thereof. Thus, the Central Government is not only empowered to make rules for regulating the award of minor punishment under Section 11 but also to carry out the purposes of the Act which includes superintendence of, and control over, the Force as well as its administration. Punishment of compulsory retirement is intra vires the CRPF Act 18. Ordinarily a person in service cannot be visited with a punishment not specified in the contract of service or the law governing such service. Punishments may be specified either in the contract of service or in the Act or the rules governing such service. In State Bank of India and Ors. v. T.J. Paul13 this Court had occasion to deal with a situation where, for a proven charge of gross misconduct, punishment of removal was not one of the punishments specified in the extant rules 13 1999 (4) SCC 759 Civil Appeal @ SLP (C)