NEW DELHI, May 27:
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 has 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 O P Chautala challenging the high court’s 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 apex court which, however, had said the convicts may 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, saying, “the overwhelming evidence showed the shocking and spine-chilling state of affairs in the country.” (PTI)
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