State Act

The Gujarat Panchayats Act, 1993

87. (1) The competent authority may suspend from office any President or Vice-President or Chairman of Committee against whom any criminal proceedings in respect of an offence involving moral turpitude have been instituted or who has been detained in a prison during trial for any offence or who is undergoing such sentence of imprisonment as would not disqualify him from continuing as a member of the panchayat under section 30, or who has been detained under any law relating to preventive detention for the time being in force. (2) Where any President or Vice-President or Chairman has been suspended under sub-section (1), another member shall, subject to the condition to which the election of the President, Vice-President or, as the case may be, Chairman suspended, was subject be elected to perform all the duties and exercise all the powers of a President or a Vice President or a Chairman, as the case may be, during the period for which such suspension continues. (3) An appeal shall lie against an order passed under sub-section (1) to the State Government. Such appeal shall be made within a period of thirty days from the date of the order.