New Delhi : The Delhi High Court today sought the city government’s response on a plea of former Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala, serving a 10-year jail term in a teachers’ recruitment scam case, seeking 60 days’ parole for medical treatment.
Justice Ashutosh Kumar issued notice to the Delhi government and sought its reply to Chautala’s plea by January 4, the next date of hearing.
During the hearing, the government, however, opposed the plea.
On August 3, Chautala and his son Ajay Singh Chautala’s appeal against the high court verdict was dismissed by the Supreme Court, saying the order was a “reasoned one”.
The apex court had, however, said the convicts may move the high court with their pleas seeking relief like parole on health grounds.
Chautala, his son and three others are serving 10-year jail terms in the case.
Eighty-two-year-old Chautala has sought parole for 60 days for getting treatment for his polio-affected legs.
The plea stated that on September 8, Chautala had moved an application for the grant of parole to the Tihar jail superintendent on medical grounds.
“On October 20, the home department of the Delhi government had informed that his plea for parole was dismissed, keeping in mind the 2010 parole guidelines, as per which there should be a gap of a minimum of six months from the date of termination of the last parole,” it stated.
The petition also said that the INLD leader had last availed a one-month parole in May this year, which was later extended. — PTI
