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(1) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (3), the ChiefInformation Commissioner or any Information Commissioner shall be removed fromhis office only by order of the President on the ground of proved misbehaviouror incapacity after the Supreme Court, on a reference made to it by thePresident, has, on inquiry, reported that the Chief Information Commissioner orany Information Commissioner, as the case may be, ought on such ground beremoved.
(2) The President may suspend from office, and if deem necessaryprohibit also from attending the office during inquiry, the Chief InformationCommissioner or Information Commissioner in respect of whom a reference hasbeen made to the Supreme Court under sub-section (1) until the President haspassed orders on receipt of the report of the Supreme Court on such reference.
(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), thePresident may by order remove from office the Chief Information Commissioner orany Information Commissioner if the Chief Information Commissioner or aInformation Commissioner, as the case may be,--
(a) is adjudged an insolvent; or
(b) has been convicted of an offence which, in the opinion of thePresident, involves moral turpitude; or
(c) engages during his term of office in any paid employmentoutside the duties of his office; or
(d) is, in the opinion of the President, unfit to continue inoffice by reason of infirmity of mind or body; or
(e) has acquired such financial or other interest as is likely toaffect prejudicially his functions as the Chief Information Commissioner or aInformation Commissioner.
(4) If the Chief Information Commissioner or any InformationCommissioner in any way, concerned or interested in any contract or agreementmade by or on behalf of the Government of India or participates in any way inthe profit thereof or in any benefit or emolument arising therefrom otherwisethan as a member and in common with the other members of an incorporatedcompany, he shall, for the purposes of sub-section (1), be deemed to be guiltyof misbehaviour.