NEW DELHI, June 23:
The Delhi High Court today extended till July 10 the interim bail granted to former Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala, serving a 10-year jail term in teachers recruitment case.
The court extended on medical grounds the three week long interim bail granted to 79-year-old Chautala on June 3 for carrying out the post-cremation rituals of his younger brother Pratap Singh, who died on June 1.
A vacation bench of justice Pratibha Rani directed Chautala to surrender on July 11.
The Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) leader’s interim bail has been extended by the court on the same terms and conditions as in the June 3 order after perusing the status report submitted by CBI and after hearing arguments by advocates R K Anand and Amit Sahni on behalf of Chautala.
CBI in its status report has said that Chautala is admitted in the ICU of Medanta Hospital in Gurgaon and that he needs to undergo some tests on July 4 with respect to his pacemaker.
Chautala had sought extension of his bail by four weeks on the ground that he is currently admitted in the ICU of Medanta Hospital in Gurgaon and if allowed by the doctors, he would also like to attend the remaining post-cremation rites of his brother.
The court had set Chautala free on interim bail for 21 days while asking him to furnish a personal bond of Rs five lakh with two sureties of the like amount.
Earlier on May 30, the high court had issued notice to CBI seeking its reply by July 11 on Chautala’s plea for regular bail citing ill health.
In his regular bail plea, Chautala had contended that he is a physically disabled senior citizen having 60 per cent permanent disability.
He had contended in his plea that he is suffering from diabetes as well as chronic obstructive airway disease and is prone to both respiratory and cardiac ailments.
On January 22, 2013, a special CBI court had sentenced Ajay Chautala, Om Prakash Chautala and eight others, including Vidya Dhar and Badshami, to 10 years jail term for illegally recruiting 3,206 junior teachers in 2000.
Among other convicts in the junior basic trained (JBT) teachers’ recruitment scam case, 44 have been sentenced to four years in jail and one to five-year jail term.
All of them were held guilty of cheating, forgery, using fake documents as genuine, conspiracy under IPC and for abusing their official position under Prevention of Corruption Act. (PTI)

NEW DELHI, June 23:
Bollywood star Aamir Khan, who has been championining the cause of social issues, today met Prime Minister Narendra Modi here to discuss the problems which he highlights in his TV programme ‘Satyamev Jayate’.
The 49-year-old actor and director later said the Prime Minister assured him that he would look into the issues raised by him.
“Just came out of my meeting with Honorable Prime Minister of India Shree Narendra Modiji. Was very kind of him to spare his valuable time.
“Shared with him the overwhelming support that we got from people across the country through ‘Vote for Change’ campaign on SMJ (Satyamev Jayate) on the various issues that we tackled in our show. He has assured me that he will look into all the matters,” Aamir said in a series of tweets later.
The ‘Vote for Change’ episode, which was aired in the run up to the last Lok Sabha elections, focused on criminalisation of politics in India while urging the voters to cast their votes to make a difference.
The Prime Minister’s Office described the meeting in Modi’s office in South Block as a “courtesy call”. (PTI)

MUMBAI, June 23:
Megastar Amitabh Bachchan is all set to recite his father Harivansh Rai Bachchan’s poems again at an event.
The 71-year-old actor, who did such recitations in the past, said his new renditions will also be digitally equipped.
“The recitation of my Father’s works are in the pipe line… Performances to be done on stage much like the one at the Theatre du Champs Elysees in Paris and a few unique digital experiments, which are still too early to speak about,” Bachchan wrote on his blog.
The ‘Bhootnath Returns’ star is also busy with his debut fiction TV show ‘Yudh’ and upcoming film projects including ‘Piku’ and ‘2’.
“Activities for many of the projects under the contract are taking shape gradually… The TV serial, the upcoming KBC, sittings and meetings for Shoojit’s film ‘Piku’, Vinod Chopra’s film ‘2’ directed by Bijoy Nambiar who assisted Mani Ratnam, and some!!” he wrote. (PTI)

HYDERABAD, June 23:  A special court trying the case of multi-crore rupee accounting fraud in erstwhile Satyam Computer Services Limited (SCSL) today said it will pronounce the date of judgement on June 26.
Special judge B V L N Chakravarti of XXI court of Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) here said the date for pronouncement of verdict in the case related to accounting fraud in SCSL will be given on June 26.
Satyam Computers founder and former chairman B Ramalinga Raju, the prime accused, and nine others accused in the case were present in the court.
The trial in Satyam fraud case had concluded last week before the special court which examined 216 witnesses and marked 3,038 documents during the course of the hearing.
Touted as the country’s biggest accounting fraud, the scam came to light on January 7, 2009, after Ramalinga Raju confessed to manipulating his company’s account books and inflating profits over many years to the tune of several crores of rupees.
Raju was arrested by the Crime Investigation Department of Andhra Pradesh Police two days later along with his brother.
In February that year, CBI took over the investigation and filed three charge sheets against Raju and others, (on April 7, 2009, November 24, 2009 and January 7, 2010), which were later clubbed into one.
They have been accused, mainly, of falsification of accounts which caused a loss of Rs 14,000 crore to Satyam shareholders.
Raju and others were charged with offences ranging from cheating, criminal conspiracy, forgery, breach of trust under relevant sections of IPC by way of inflating invoices and incomes, account falsification, faking fixed deposits, besides allegedly falsifying returns through violation of various I-T laws.
Raju later retracted his confession statement and contended that all charges levelled by the CBI are false.
Satyam Computer Services Ltd later merged with Tech Mahindra.
At present, all the accused are out on bail, though the Enforcement Directorate has also filed a charge sheet against them under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act. (PTI)