Sentencing to former CM OP Chautala today: Rouse Avenue Court will pronounce at 2 o’clock, the verdict was reserved after debate yesterday

The court will pronounce the sentence of former Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala in the disproportionate assets case at 2 pm today. The verdict was reserved after the arguments of lawyers on the sentence in Delhi’s Rouse Avenue Court on Thursday. Former CM OP Chautala himself reached the court on a wheel chair. INLD and other party leaders are eyeing the punishment to be given to Chautala. The future of INLD will also depend to a large extent on the punishment to be done today.

Chautala’s lawyer argued

The counsel appearing for Chautala has argued in the court that he is 87 years old and has been ill for a long time. He has a certificate of 60 percent disability, but now he has become 90 percent disabled. Health remains poor and is unable to change even his own clothes. Earlier, he has been sentenced to jail in the JBT recruitment case. He has passed 10th and 12th while in jail. At the same time, the counsel for the CBI has argued that giving less punishment to the former CM will send a wrong message.

Significantly, Chautala was convicted by the court on May 21. The CBI had produced 106 witnesses against Chautala in the disproportionate assets case. The CBI had registered this case against the former CM in 2005. In 2010, the charge sheet was filed in the court. After the chargesheet, OP Chautala’s statement was recorded on January 16, 2018. The CBI had registered three separate disproportionate assets cases against Chautala and his sons.

this is the whole matter

The disproportionate assets case was registered by the CBI in 2005 on the complaint of Congress leader Shamsher Singh Surjewala. The CBI had filed a charge sheet that OP Chautala’s income during the stipulated period was 189 per cent more than his income of Rs 3.22 crore. Ajay Chautala had 339.27 per cent more assets than his legitimate income. His legal income between May 1993 and May 2006 stood at Rs 8.17 crore.

Abhay Chautala’s assets were five times more than his income of Rs 22.89 crore as per income tax data between 2000 and 2005. The ED has attached assets worth more than 6 crores in the case. This includes properties in Delhi, Panchkula and Sirsa.

Tejakheda Farm House was seized

On December 4, 2019, the ED had seized some part of OP Chautala’s Tejakheda farm house. At that time CRPF personnel were with the ED. This action was taken at 7 am. After this, the ED also collected the details of the assets of former CM’s wife Snehlata and daughter-in-law Kanta Chautala. However, the action was said by the Chautala family to be politically motivated. The properties of Chautala in Delhi and Panchkula have also been attached by the ED.