Ex-Haryana CM Om Prakash Chautala gets 4-year jail term

A four-year jail term was granted to former Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala in a disproportionate assets DA case, according to a Delhi court on Friday.

Special Judge Vikas Dhull also imposed a fine of Rs 50 lakh on the convict in the case of acquiring disproportionate assets from 1993 to 2006 in the case of disproportionate assets.

The judge ordered the authorities to confiscate four of his properties.

The court convicted Chautala last week, and said the accused had failed to adequately account for such disproportionality by proving his source of income or means by the way of which he acquired assets during this period.

The charge sheet was filed on March 26, 2010, accusing the CBI of amassing assets disproportionate to his legitimate income, between 1993 and 2006, between 1993 and 2006.

In collusion with his family members and others, accumulated assets, in his name, in his name, in the names of his family members, were disproportionate to the CBI's FIR Om Prakash Chautala, while serving as Chief Minister of Haryana from July 24, 1999, to March 5, 2005, in collusion with his family members and others, accumulated assets, immovable and disproportionate to his known lawful sources of income, in his name, in the names of his family members.

The disproportionate assets were estimated to be Rs 6.09 crore, 189.11 per cent of his known sources of income.