The plea filed by the 82-year-old politician also urged the court to release him on parole on medical grounds
The Delhi High Court (HC) has issued a notice to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government, seeking its reply on a plea of INLD chief OP Chautala, who is serving a 10-year jail term for his role in a teachers' recruitment scam case. Chautala has sought a two-month parole to look after his ailing wife.
Justice Mukta Gupta directed the authorities concerned to place, within two days, their status report on Chautala's plea for parole, listing the matter for December 14. Appearing for former Haryana chief minister Chautala, advocate Amit Sahni submitted that the convict's wife Sneh Lata was critically ill and hospitalised in Sirsa, Haryana. He said the 78-year-old woman was in the intensive care unit (ICU).
The plea filed by the 82-year-old politician also urged the court to release him on parole on medical grounds. He said he wanted to spend some time with his wife in her last days. The plea further stated that the leader was last granted parole earlier this year, and he was entitled to another parole, as per the parole and furlough guidelines, which stipulate that a minimum of six months should lapse after the date of termination of the previous parole.
On March 1, the HC had cancelled the parole granted to the former CM and asked him to "surrender forthwith", saying he cocked a snook at the court and "misled" it by feigning illness. It had then said that Chautala was misusing his parole to attend public meetings.
On March 5, 2015, the HC upheld the 10-year jail terms awarded to the two Chautalas and three others, saying "the overwhelming evidence showed spine-chilling state of affairs in the country".
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