The court of Justice Siddharth Mridul has upheld the 10-year jail sentence given by the trial court in 2013 to O P Chautala, Ajay Chautala, as well as political adviser to the then Haryana CM Sher Singh Badshami, Chautala’s former officer on special duty Vidya Dhar and the then director of primary education in the Haryana government Sanjiv Kumar.
The court has, however, granted relief to the five senior Education department officials who had also been given 10-year imprisonment by the CBI court in 2013, and has reduced their sentence to two years imprisonment.
The remaining accused in the case are principals of government schools and junior education officials involved in the scam, whose sentences have been reduced from four years to two years imprisonment.
The detailed judgment, which numbers over 300 pages, will be released by the court by afternoon. As many as 62 persons had been chargesheeted by the CBI for the scam involving recruitment of Junior Basic trained teachers in primary schools in Haryana in 1999. As many as 55 accused were finally convicted by a special CBI court in Delhi, as some had passed away during the trial.
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