Refusing to grant further bail on the ground of bad medical condition, the Delhi High Court Friday asked to former Chief Minister of Haryana Om Prakash Chautala to surrender himself before the Tihar jail authority by September 17.
Chautala, who has been sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment along with his son Ajay Chautala for irregularities in the appointment of teachers in 2000, was seeking further bail on the ground of bad health condition.
Justice Siddharth Mridul dismissed the plea and accepted the report of a committee set up by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences which said that he did not require further hospitalisation.
Chautala, the chief of the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD), was earlier granted interim bail May 21 for pacemaker implant surgery at Gurgaon's Medanta Hospital. He had been getting extension of bail since then on medical grounds.
Filing the plea, 78-year-old Chautala had said that his pacemaker implant was done June 3, and the doctor had advised regular check-ups for three months.
Apart from the heart ailment, Chautala also suffers from other age-related problems.
A trial court in the national capital had sentenced Chautala, his son Ajay Chautala and eight others to 10 years in jail. One convict was sentenced to five years in jail, while 45 others were each handed out four-year jail terms.
Chautala and the other accused were found guilty of illegally recruiting 3,206 junior basic trained teachers in Haryana in 2000.
--With IANS Inputs--
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