CHENGDU, April 14 -- The former Communist Party chief of a city in southwest China's Sichuan Province has been handed over to judicial authorities for suspected law violations, said the provincial discipline watchdog on Tuesday.

Li Jia, former secretary of the Ziyang City committee of the Communist Party of China, has seriously violated discipline and is suspected of violating the law, said the Sichuan provincial CPC discipline inspection commission.

Li, born in 1966, was the Party boss of Ziyang between April 2009 and November 2014.