Om Prakash Chautala, Ex-Haryana Chief Minister, Released From Tihar Jail

Om Prakash Chautala was serving a 10-year term in a teachers' recruitment scam.

Former Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala was today released from Delhi's Tihar Jail. He was serving a 10-year term following conviction in a teachers' recruitment scam. The 86-year-old President of the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) was already out on parole, but reached Tihar on Friday to complete the formalities, following which he was released. Mr Chautala, along with his son Ajay Chautala and 53 others, including IAS officer Sanjiv Kumar, was convicted of and sentenced in a case of illegal recruitment of 3,206 junior basic teachers in 2000. The former Chief Minister, sentenced in 2013, completed his prison term two months ahead of schedule on account of a special remission granted to around 20 convicts who had less than six months of their terms remaining.