Former Haryana Chief Minister and Indian National Lok Dal chief Om Prakash Chautala, who is serving a 10-year prison term in a teacher recruitment scam case and is out on parole, will be freed from Tihar jail as the Delhi Government has granted a six-month remission of sentence. The Delhi government passed an order on Monday granting a six-month special remission to those who have served nine-and-half years of their 10-year prison sentence to decongest jails in view of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Since the 86-year-old former Chief Minister has already served nine years and nine months of his sentence, he is eligible to get out of prison,” Chautala's lawyer Amit Sahni told the mediapersons.
Sahni said that the Tihar Jail Authority has communicated that the Government of GNCT of Delhi has passed an order regarding special remission of six months to convicts who are sentenced for 10 years and have already completed nine years and six months of custody including regular remission.
