Findings and recommendations to be communicated to competent authority by a report

(1) If, in any case to which section 14 does not apply, the Lokayukta Aayog, after investigation of any action in respect of which a complaint involving an allegation has been or can be or could have been made, is satisfied that such allegation can be substantiated, either wholly or partly, it shall by a report in writing, communicate its findings alongwith the relevant documents, materials and other evidence, to the competent authority. (2) The competent authority shall examine the report forwarded to it under sub-section (1) and intimate, within seven months of the date of receipt of the report to the Lokayukta Aayog as to the action taken or proposed to be taken on the basis of the report.