On September 26, the Jammu & Kashmir government announced that a councillor from the Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC) had been fired for misusing her official authority.
Jyoti Devi, a councillor for the Jammu Municipal Corporation, has been asked to resign after being caught receiving a bribe of Rs 1000 by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) investigators.
“Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 34(I)(b) of The Jammu and Kashmir Municipal Corporation Act, 2000, the government hereby removes Smt. Jyoti Yadav, councillor, ward No. 53, from her office on the grounds of abuse of her official powers, with immediate effect,” reads an order issued by the H&UDD, a copy of which is news organisation Kashmir News Observer (KNO).
It has taken place twice in the previous two years.
Awantipora Bashir Ahmad Bhat, president of the municipal committee, has already been fired for misusing his position—(KNO)
