The conduct committee of the UK House of Lords said on Tuesday that Nazir Ahmed, a member of Pakistani origin, resigned, but added that he had recommended his expulsion following investigations that concluded he violated the House code of conduct.
Ahmed, 63, who has participated in various anti-India demonstrations in London over the years, was a member of the Labor Party until 2013.
The committee said: “Lord Ahmed resigned from the House of Lords on November 14, but the report, which was agreed by the committee and seen by Lord Ahmed before then, recommends that he should have been expelled.”
The committee released a report following an appeal by Ahmed against the House commissioner’s previous findings on sexual allegation rules with a member of the public in 2017. It dismissed the appeal.
The committee confirmed the commissioner’s findings that Ahmed violated the code of conduct by failing to act on his personal honor in the performance of his parliamentary activities, and recommended his removal from the House, rather than a prolonged suspension.
It said that Ahmed had violated the code “by agreeing to use his position as a member of the House to help a member of the public, but then he sexually assaulted the complainant, lying to her about his intentions to help her with a complaint to the Metropolitan Police for exploitation. by a healer, emotionally and sexually exploiting the complainant despite knowing that she was vulnerable ”.
The committee said it considered the suspension sanction, but concluded: “The abuse of the privileged position of the membership for the benefit or gratification of a member, at the expense of the vulnerable or less privileged, implies a fundamental breach of trust and deserves the most serious. sanction.”
“While it is possible to think of even more serious infractions, the case in all the circumstances that we have raised crosses the threshold that calls for immediate and definitive expulsion,” added the nine-member committee.
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