Delhi High Court grants parole to Ajay Chautala for taking PG exam

New Delhi, June 29

The Delhi High Court on Friday granted parole to incarcerated INLD leader Ajay Singh Chautala to appear in a PG diploma exam to be held at Sirsa on Saturday.

Justice Vinod Goel said Chautala, who is serving a 10-year jail term in a teachers’ recruitment scam case, be released on Friday on parole to appear in the exam on Saturday afternoon and that he would surrender on July 1.

The direction came on Chautala’s petition, filed through advocate Amit Sahni, seeking parole to appear in the exam on Fundamentals of Psychology scheduled for June 30.

The court said Chautala would have to furnish a personal bond of Rs 15,000 and a surety of the like amount.

The order was passed after Delhi Police, represented by advocate Rajesh Mahajan, told the court that the Controller of Exams of the university had confirmed that the exam in question is scheduled for Saturday.

Chautala is pursuing the PG diploma in Counselling and Behaviour Modification (PGDCBM) under the distance education programme of Guru Jhambheshwar University of Science and Technology at Hisar.

The Supreme Court had on August 3, 2016 dismissed the appeals of Chautala and his father Om Prakash Chautala challenging the high court verdict upholding their conviction and sentence of 10 years awarded by a trial court in the junior basic trained (JBT) teachers’ recruitment scam case.

The father-son duo and 53 others, including two IAS officers, were among the 55 people convicted on January 16, 2013 by the trial court for illegally recruiting 3,206 JBT teachers in Haryana in 2000. PTI