10-year jail term for Chautala, son and other accused

22 January, 2013

A Delhi court awarded a ten-year jail term to the former Haryana CM Om Prakash Chautala and his son Ajay Chautala, two IAS officers and some teachers in a case filed against them. They were held guilty of cheating, forgery, conspiracy and illegally recruiting 3,206 junior basic trained (JBT) teachers in the state in 2000. All the accused were present in the court except Om Prakash Chautala who has been hospitalised for treatment.

Outside the court, thousands of supporters of Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) created a ruckus by clashing with police who used batons and teargas to control them, both before and after the sentence was pronounced. They went to the extent of pelting stones and throwing crude bombs inside the court premises.

Om Prakash Chautala is the chief of the INLD and the leader of opposition in the Haryana Vidhan Sabha. The son of Chaudhari Devi Lal, a former deputy prime minister of India, he has been chief minister of Haryana for five times.

However, in the 2005 state assembly elections, INLD lost its majority, winning just 9 out of the 90 seats to pave way for Bhupinder Singh Hooda of the Congress to become the chief minister of Haryana.

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Abhijeet Singh

Om Prakash Chautala is arrested only because he is in opposition (INLD). Have you ever seen any Congress politician being arrested, even after 60 years of looting this country? Anyone from Gandhi family? Any sane intelligent Indian knows what Gandhi family and Congress have done to India. Look at the other countries which became independent at the same time as India. China, South Korea, etc have become very rich industrialized nations. Germany, Japan ravaged by war in 1940s have become ecenomic superpowers now. See where is India now, its even behind Sri Lanka in HDI. Indians need to wake up and show Congress their actual place, the garbage dump.

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Naveen Dalal

He will be out on bail soon just like Kalmadi and A.Raja did?? Even if he servers 10 years in jail can this court forfeit the amount made by father-son duo in this scam? NO, cause we don?t have any provision in our law which can recover the losses to the government by corrupt individuals. After completing their term they are free to enjoy their life with the money made in scam. That's why we want a stronger Jan Lokpal bill.

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RJ Khurana

Where is Kejriwal and his team who had been supporting Chautala Party in Haryana by-election and sharing stage with O.P. Chautala. No word from Kejriwal on arrest. Double standards. BJP has been critic of DMK on corruption but mum on INLD leader's arrest.

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Alok Srivastava

Very important judgement for the entire country .This will serve as a very good example to those who have very scant reagards for the law of land and go on committing crimes after crimes.Now an IAS,IPS OR MP MLA ,MINISTER,CHIEF MINISTERS OR ANY HIGH AND MIGHTY at the helm of afair , will think twice before twisting and turning the law to favoure their kith and kins.

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