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Former Haryana chief minister Om Prakash Chautala and his son Ajay arrested yesterday after a court convicted them in a recruitment scam involving teachers.
The Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) chief and his son, both Haryana legislators, were taken into custody immediately after the ruling by the Central Bureau of Investigation court in Rohini. The court also convicted 53 others for the illegal recruitment of over 3,000 junior basic training (JBT) teachers. The court will sentence them on January 22.
The CBI had formally charged the father and son and others on June 6, 2008, over the scam that took place in 1999-2000 when Chautala was the chief minister of Haryana.
Over 3,000 teachers were to be recruited in the state and Chautala had pressured a senior official, Sanjeev Kumar, to change the list of selected candidates by fudging the marks of certain favourites.
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