Section 118. Powers of the Director to remove Chairman or Member of the Market Committee.

(1) The Director may remove Chairman in consultation with the State Government and Members of Market Committee in consultation with Chairman where he is of the opinion that the said functioning: (a) has been guilty of misconduct or gross negligence of duty as Chairman or a Member; (b) ceases to hold the qualifications necessary for being a Chairman or Member. (2) No order of removal under subsection (1) shall be passed unless the person concerned has been given reasonable opportunity of being heard in respect of the allegations against him. (3) The Director may suspend any Chairman or a Member of a Market Committee in the manner and way mutatis mutandis to subsection (1), who has been served with notice under subsection (1) or subsection (2) as the case may be, and against who many complaint has been received or who commits irregularities after the service of such notice, for period from the date of receipt of complaint or the date of noticing of irregularities by the Director till the final decision is taken in his case.