HC dismisses Ajay’s parole plea

New Delhi, May 27

The Delhi High Court today dismissed the plea by INLD leader Ajay Chautala, serving a 10-year jail term in a teachers’ recruitment scam case, seeking 12 weeks’ parole for medical treatment.

A Bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice Jayant Nath was of the view that there was “no illegality or perversity” in Delhi Government’s November, 2015, decision declining to grant him parole. He had challenged the order in the High Court.

The Bench noted that he was discharged from hospital on October, 2015, and thereafter, there had been no medical reports regarding his medical condition.

It, however, granted him the liberty to move a fresh application before the government for grant of parole.

It directed the government to decide the application, if any, within four weeks.

The judgement came on Chautala’s plea against a single judge’s April 27 decision rejecting his appeal against the Delhi government’s November, 2015, decision.

The Supreme Court on August 3 last year had dismissed the appeals of Ajay and his father Om Prakash Chautala, challenging the High Court’s verdict upholding their conviction and 10-year sentence awarded by a trial court in the JBT teachers’ recruitment scam.The apex court , however, had then said the convicts could move the High Court with their pleas seeking relief like parole on health grounds.

The High Court had on March 5, 2015, upheld the 10-year jail term awarded to Chautalas and three others in the JBT scam.

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