Section 23 — Resignation and Removal of a Chairperson or a Member of the State Commission.

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[23. Resignation and Removal of Chairperson or a Member of the State Commission].—

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[(1) 

The Chairperson or a Member of a State Commission may, by notice in writing under his hand addressed 

to the Governor, resign his office. 

(1A) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (2), the Chairperson or any Member of the State 

Commission shall only be removed from his office by order of the President on the ground of proved 

misbehaviour or incapacity after the Supreme Court, on a reference being made to it by the President, has, 

on inquiry held in accordance with the procedure prescribed in that behalf by the Supreme Court, reported 

that the Chairperson or such Member, as the case may be, ought on any such ground to be removed.] 

 (2)  Notwithstanding anything in 
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[sub-section (1A)] the President may by order remove from office 

the Chairperson or any 
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[Member] if the Chairperson or such 

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[Member], as the case may be,— 

(a)   is adjudged an insolvent; or 

(b) engages during his term of office in any paid  employment outside the duties of his office; or 

(c)   is  unfit to continue in office by reason of  infirmity of mind or body; or 

(d)   is  of  unsound  mind  and  stands  so  declared  by  a  competent court; or 

(e)   is  convicted  and  sentenced to  imprisonment  for  an offence which in the opinion of the 

President involves  moral  turpitude.