The Delhi High Court on Friday extended the interim bail of former Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala and his son and Indian National Lok Dal MLA Ajay Chautala till September 26 on medical grounds. Mr. Chautala has been convicted and sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment in the teachers’ recruitment scam case.
Justice Siddharth Mridul of the High Court also extended the interim bail of three other convicts in the case till the same date. Mr. Chautala is presently being treated at a hospital in Gurgaon.
The Court had on July 11 reserved its judgment on the appeals of 55 convicts, including Mr. Chautala and his son, in the teachers’ recruitment scam case.
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The matter pertains to illegal recruitment of 3,206 junior teachers in Haryana in 2000.