Teachers recruitment scam: Chautalas get 10 years in jail

January 22, 2013 12:07

A Delhi court on Tuesday awarded 10 years imprisonment to former Haryana chief minister Om Prakash Chautala and his son Ajay in connection with the illegal recruitment of junior basic trained teachers.The court has also barred the father-son duo from standing in elections.

IAS officers Sanjiv Kumar and Vidya Dhar, the other co-accused, have also been given 10 years imprisonment by the court.

Chautala, his son Ajay and 53 others have been convicted by a Delhi court for illegal hiring of over 3,000 teachers in the teachers recruitment scam. The teachers were recruited in 1999-2000 during Chautala's tenure.

The CBI filed its first chargesheet in the case in 2006 alleging that Rs 3 to 4 lakhs was paid as bribe for selection of each of 3,032 candidates.

Just after the sentence was pronounced, thousands of supporters of Chautalas gathered outside the Rohini court and clashed with policemen and threw crude bombs into the court premises. The police tried to disperse the slogan shouting crowds, and also closed the main gates of the premises.

The police fired teargas shells at slogan-shouting Indian National Lok Dal supporters outside the court to disperse them.

All the roads leading to the court complex were full of cars and SUVs belonging to Chautala's supporters and party workers.

Other than the 55 accused, their counsel, prosecutors and the court staff, the judge has not allowed anyone to enter the courtroom during the hearing.

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