His son Ajay Singh Chuatala was additionally sentenced to 10 years imprisonment. (File)
New Delhi:
The Rouse avenue courtroom of Delhi in the present day convicted Ex- Haryana chief minister Om Prakash Chautala in a disproportionate belongings (DA) case filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
Particular Choose (PC Act) Vikas Dhull, in the present day, whereas ordering the conviction of Mr Chautala, stated he’ll hear the arguments on the quantum of punishment on Might 26, 2022.
Within the case, the CBI had filed a cost sheet towards Mr Chautala on March 26, 2010, and held him accountable for allegedly amassing belongings value Rs 6.09 crore, a lot disproportionate to his official earnings, between 1993 and 2006. The case was filed on a criticism by Haryana Congress chief Shamsher Singh Surjewala.
Om Prakash Chautala is a former Chief Minister of Haryana from the Indian Nationwide Lok Dal and son of sixth Deputy Prime Minister Chaudhary Devi Lal. Om Prakash Chautala was not too long ago launched from the Tihar Jail on 2 July 2021 from a ten years jail sentence after finishing the due formalities.
He and 53 others, in June 2008, had been charged in reference to the appointment of three,206 junior fundamental lecturers within the state of Haryana throughout 1999-2000. In January 2013 a New Delhi courtroom sentenced Om Prakash Chautala and his son Ajay Singh Chautala to 10 years’ imprisonment beneath numerous provisions of the IPC and the Prevention of Corruption Act.
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