Govt suspends Jaipur Heritage Mayor Munesh Gurjar

“On the ground of the study received by the department, the allegations against Mrs Munesh Gurjar, Mayor, Jaipur Municipal Corporation, signing leases astatine the behest of her hubby Mr Sushil Gurjar, discussing the leases with her husband, keeping them pending, and signing leases aft receiving bribe magnitude successful lieu of leases, appears to beryllium prima facie proven,” the section said.

The section said that aft uncovering her prima facie blameworthy successful the report, the section issued a announcement seeking mentation from Munesh nether the Rajasthan Municipality Act, 2009, and said that her reply was “not satisfactory.” Earlier this month, the authorities had besides fixed prosecution authorisation to the ACB to proceed against Munesh.

She had past been suspended doubly during Congress regularisation successful August and September 2023.

In August past year, Munesh’s hubby Sushil Gurjar was caught by the Special Investigation Wing (SIW) of the ACB. Along with middlemen Narayan Singh and 1 Anil Dubey, the trio was caught taking a bribe of Rs 2 lakh.

The complainant had said that helium had applied for a onshore deed but Sushil Gurjar and 2 others were demanding Rs 2 lakh successful lieu of issuing the onshore deed. However, the SIW caught the 3 connected August 4, 2023. Over Rs 40 lakh successful currency was seized from Sushil’s residence, isolated from the complainant’s file, portion Rs 8 lakh was seized from Narayan Singh’s residence.

Meanwhile, Munesh had besides precocious approached the High Court against the FIR against her, stating that the FIR has been lodged against her retired of malice and that nary betterment was made from her. The substance is inactive pending successful the court.