23. Power to exclude complaints against certain classes of public functionaries.
(1)The State Government may, on the recommendation of the Lokayukta Aayog and on being satisfied that it is necessary or expedient in the public interest so to do, exclude, by notification in the Official Gazette, complaints, involving allegations against persons belonging to any class of public functionaries specified in the notification from the jurisdiction of the Lokayukta.(2)Every notification issued under sub-section (1) shall be laid as soon as may be after it is issued before the State Legislature while it is in session for a total period of thirty days which may be comprised in one session or in two successive sessions and if before the expiry of the session in which it is so laid or the session immediately following the State Legislature agree in making any modification in the notification or agree that the notification, should not be made and notify such decision in the Official Gazette, the notification shall, from the date of publication of such decision, have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be so, however, that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done by virtue of that notification.
