Former Haryana chief minister OP Chautala, who’s serving a 10-year jail time period and is on parole within the trainer recruitment rip-off case, will likely be free of Tihar jail because the Delhi authorities has given a six-month remission of sentence, officers mentioned on Wednesday. To.
The Delhi authorities on Monday handed an order granting particular rest of six months to those that have served nine-and-a-half years of their 10-year jail time period to decongest jails within the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Officials mentioned that because the 86-year-old former chief minister has served 9 years and 9 months of his sentence, he deserves to be launched from jail.
“Chautala was jailed on January 16, 2013. He was on emergency parole from March 26, 2020, due to the COVID pandemic and was due to surrender on February 21, 2021. However, his parole was extended by the High Court. was given,” a senior jail official mentioned.
On February 21, he had two months and 27 days of jail time left, which can now be counted as eliminated. The official mentioned he could be formally launched at any time when he surrenders earlier than the jail authority.
“The Delhi Government has handed an order concerning particular remission of six months to these convicts who’ve been sentenced to 10 years and who’ve already accomplished 9 years and 6 months of custody, together with common remission. is.
“Convicts sentenced to seven years or more but less than 10 years, and with only five months left to complete the sentence, will get a remission of five months. The convicts who are sentenced to five years or more but less than seven years, and only four months are left to complete the sentence, shall be granted remission of four months,” the order mentioned.
Similarly, these launched with imprisonment of three years or extra however lower than 5 years and imprisonment of solely three months and one yr or extra however lower than three years and solely two months will get remission of three months and two months respectively.
In 2000, OP Chautala, his son Ajay Chautala and IAS officer Sanjeev Kumar have been convicted and sentenced to loss of life for unlawful recruitment of three,206 junior fundamental academics.
All of them have been sentenced to completely different jail phrases within the case by a particular CBI court docket in January 2013.
The rip-off was initially uncovered after Kumar, the then director of main training in Haryana, filed a petition within the Supreme Court. Later, he was additionally discovered concerned within the rip-off throughout the CBI investigation.
Besides Chautala and Kumar, Chautala’s former Officer on Special Duty Vidya Dhar and political advisor to the then Haryana CM Sher Singh Badshami have been additionally sentenced to 10 years in jail.
Others who got 10-year jail phrases embody Madan Lal Kalra, Durga Dutt Pradhan, Bani Singh, Ram Singh and Daya Saini. Apart from these, one convict has been sentenced to 5 years and the remaining 44 have been sentenced to 4 years of imprisonment.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
