The Delhi High Court on Friday granted parole to Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) leader Ajay Singh Chautala, who is serving a 10-year jail term in a teachers’ recruitment scam case, to write a postgraduate diploma exam in Haryana’s Sirsa on Saturday.
Directing that Ajay be released on parole on Friday to write the exam, Justice Vinod Goel directed him surrender on July 1. The court said Ajay will have to furnish a personal bond of ₹50,000 and a surety of the like amount.
The direction came on Ajay’s petition, filed through advocate Amit Sahni, seeking parole to write the exam on fundamentals of psychology.
Ajay is pursuing PG diploma in Counselling and Behaviour Modification through distance education from Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology in Hisar. The order was passed after the Delhi Police told the court that the university’s Controller of Exams had confirmed that the exam was scheduled for Saturday.
The Supreme Court had on August 3, 2016, dismissed appeals by Ajay and his father O.P. Chautala challenging the High Court verdict upholding their conviction and sentences of 10 years’ each awarded by a trial court in the Junior Basic Training (JBT) teachers’ recruitment scam.
The High Court had on March 5, 2015, said, “The overwhelming evidence showed the shocking and spine-chilling state of affairs in the country.”
The Chautalas and 53 others, including two IAS officers, are among the 55 persons convicted on January 16, 2013, by a trial court for illegally recruiting 3,206 JBT teachers in Haryana in 2000.
