The Delhi High Court on Tuesday sought city government’s reply on a plea by former MLA Ajay Chautala, serving a 10-year jail term in teachers’ recruitment scam case, seeking twelve weeks’ parole for medical treatment.
Justice Ashutosh Kumar asked the Delhi government to file the status report before January 29 on the plea of Ajay whose appeal against the high court verdict convicting him and his father, Haryana’s former Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala, and sentencing them to 10 years in jail was dismissed by the Supreme Court on August 3 last year. The Supreme Court which upheld their conviction, however, had said the convicts may move the high court with their pleas seeking relief like parole on health grounds. Chautalas and three others are serving 10-year jail term in the case.
Senior Advocate Sudhir Nandrajog and advocate Amit Sahni, appearing for Ajay, sought twelve weeks’ parole for enabling the convict “to get treatment and to maintain social ties”.