Om Prakash Chautala (born 1 January 1935) is an Indian politician from Haryana who served as a former Chief Minister of Haryana from

Indian National Lok Dal Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) is a political party in India, in the state of Haryana. INLD was founded in October 1996 as Haryana Lok Dal (Rashtriya) by Choudhary Devi Lal, who served as Deputy Prime Minister of India in the V.P. Singh's Cab ...

and son of 6th Deputy Prime Minister

Chaudhary Devi Lal Chaudhary Devi Lal (born Devi Dayal; 25 September 1915 – 6 April 2001) was an Indian statesman who served as 6th Deputy Prime Minister of India from 1989 to 1991 in the governments of V. P. Singh and Chandra Shekhar. Also popularly known as T ...

Biography

Chautala is the son of Devi Lal, a former Deputy Prime Minister of

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. He was married to Sneh Lata, who died in August 2019. He was born in a

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family of Sihag clan. He has two sons,

Ajay Singh Chautala Ajay Singh Chautala (born 13 March 1961) is a former Indian MP and sports administrator. He is elder son of former Chief Minister of Haryana Om Prakash Chautala and father of current Deputy Chief Minister of Haryana Dushyant Chautala. Bio ...

and Abhay Singh Chautala, and three daughters. Abhay is MLA from Ellenabad also remained

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, Haryana Legislative Assembly from October 2014 - March 2019, 10th President of Indian Olympic Association and his grandson

Dushyant Chautala Dushyant Singh Chautala (born 3 April 1988) is a Jannayak Janta Party politician and current Deputy Chief Minister of Haryana. He is the president and co-founder of the Jannayak Janata Party. He represents Uchana Kalan constituency in Haryana ...

is a Deputy Chief Minister of Haryana from Uchana, Jind Seat of Haryana Vidhan Sabha and former MP from Hisar Lok Sabha Seat. He was the Chief Minister of

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from 2 December 1989 to 22 May 1990, from 12 July 1990 to 17 July 1990, again from 22 March 1991 to 6 April 1991 and, finally, from 24 July 1999 to 5 March 2005.HARYANA LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY
Haryana Legislative Assembly. Politically, he had been part of NDA and Third Front (non-NDA & non-UPA front) at national level. Chautala was released from the

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on 2 July 2021 after serving nine and a half years of a 10-year prison sentence. His early release was due to a decision of the

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to reduce prison populations to manage the

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Recruitment scam

In June 2008 OP Chautala and 53 others were charged in connection with the appointment of 3,206 junior basic teachers in the state of

during 1999–2000. In January 2013 a

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court sentenced Chautala and his son

to ten years' imprisonment under various provisions of the IPC and the

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. Chautala was found guilty of illegally recruiting over 3,000 unqualified teachers. A CBI investigation was ordered by the Supreme Court based on a writ filed by the former director of primary education Sanjeev Kumar, a 1989 batch IAS officer. His sentence has been upheld by the

Delhi High Court The High Court of Delhi ( IAST: ''dillī uchcha nyāyālaya'') was established on 31 October 1966, through the ''Delhi High Court Act, 1966'', with four judges, Chief Justice K. S. Hegde, Justice I. D. Dua, Justice H. R. Khanna and Justice S ...

and the Supreme Court.

Disproportionate assets case

Chautala was awarded a four-year jail term in a 16 years old disproportionate assets case on 27 May 2022 by CBI Court. Along with the jail-time, the Delhi CBI Court also imposed a fine . In the process, Chautala became the oldest prisoner of the

of Delhi at age of 87.

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External links

Official website of Indian National Lok Dal
{{DEFAULTSORT:Chautala, Om Prakash 1935 births Living people People from Sirsa district Chief Ministers of Haryana Indian National Lok Dal politicians Leaders of the Opposition in Haryana Haryana MLAs 2009–2014

Om Prakash Om Prakash (born Om Prakash Chibber 19 December 1919 – 21 February 1998) was an Indian film actor. He was born in Jammu as Om Prakash Chibber and went on to become a well-known character actor of Bollywood. His most well-known movies are Na ...

Chief ministers from Janata Dal Janata Dal politicians Samajwadi Janata Party politicians

Biography

Recruitment scam

Disproportionate assets case

See also

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