Ex-Haryana CM Chautala sentenced to 4 years jail

New Delhi [India]- Special CBI court in Delhi on Friday punished former Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala to four years imprisonment as well as enforced a penalty of Rs 50 lakh in an out of proportion possessions situation.  The Court additionally ordered the confiscation of four of his properties.  Chautala appeared literally as well as existed in the court.

According to the Central Bureau of Investigation’s (CBI) FIR accused Om Prakash Chautala, while functioning as Chief Minister of Haryana throughout the period from July 24, 1999 to March 5, 2005, in collusion with his relative and others, gathered properties, unmovable and also movable, disproportionate to his well-known lawful sources of income, in his name, for his relative as well as others for Rs 1,467 crores.

FIR even more mentioned that the charged built up huge wide range and invested the same throughout the nation in the form of thousands of acres of land, multi complicateds, palatial property homes, hotels, farmhouses, service agencies, gas pumps as well as other financial investments in addition to investments in international countries.

FIR likewise specified that 43 immovable homes in all, apart from cash money as well as jewellery were gathered. In addition to 43 declared residential properties noted in the FIR, extra buildings were additionally presumed to be of the implicated family members.

Chautala taken into custody after court order

An examination with regard to additional residential properties was likewise performed for identifying the web link of the accused household with the claimed residential or commercial properties.

The chargesheet filed in the issue after the conclusion of the examination mentioned that accused OP Chautala had actually acquired properties, both stationary as well as movable, which were disproportionate to his well-known source of income.

The disproportionate properties were computed to be Rs 6,09,79,026 and the portion of DA (Disproportionate Properties) was 189.11 per cent of his well-known incomes.

As necessary, CBI had charge-sheeted the charged for the offense under the relevant area of the Avoidance of Corruption Act.

In addition to the chargesheet submitted against the implicated OP Chautala, the CBI had filed two even more charge sheets arising out of the present FIR, against the boys of the implicated consisting of Abhay Singh Chautala as well as Ajay Singh Chautala and also others, which are being tried independently.

Om Prakash Chautala is a previous Chief Minister of Haryana from the Indian National Lok Dal and son of sixth Replacement Head of state Chaudhary Devi Lal.

Chautala was released from the Tihar Prison on July 2, 2021, from a ten years prison sentence after finishing the due formalities.

He and also 53 others, in June 2008, were charged in connection with the appointment of 3,206 junior basic teachers in the state of Haryana during 1999-2000.

In January 2013, a Delhi court sentenced Chautala and his son Ajay Singh Chautala to 10 years’ imprisonment under various provisions of the IPC and the Prevention of Corruption Act.

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