NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court today cancelled the parole and furlough granted to INLD chief O P Chautala on medical grounds and asked him to “surrender forthwith”, saying he cocked a snook at the court and “misled” it by feigning illness.
Justice Vipin Sanghi issued the direction on a complaint by a private person alleging that the former Haryana chief minister, serving 10-year jail term in a teachers’ recruitment scam case, was misusing his parole to attend public meetings.
While cancelling the parole granted to him by the court on February 6 this year, the judge also scrapped the three- week furlough granted to him by the prison authorities.
Referring to media reports and pictures attached to the complaint, the court said they showed that Chautala was “hale and hearty and attending public meetings from time to time”.
The lawyers appearing for Chautala contended that press reports did not disclose he was attending public meetings and they also claimed that all the places mentioned in the news were cities where people gathered to meet him while he was on the way to his village.
The court, however, did not accept this contention. (AGENCIES)
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