Disproportionate assets case: Haryana ex-CM Om Prakash Chautala sentenced to four years in prison

New Delhi, May 27: A special CBI court in Delhi, on Friday sentenced former Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala to four years imprisonment, in a disproportionate assets (DA) case.The court has also imposed a fine of Rs 50 lakhs and confiscation of his four properties.

Earlier, Om Prakash Chautala urged the court to grant him minimum punishment, citing medical ailments and old age.

The Central Bureau of Investigation(CBI), meanwhile, sought maximum punishment for the convict, saying it would send a message to society.

The agency further said that Om Prakash Chautala was not having clean antecedents since it was the second case in which he has been convicted.

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

The CBI had filed the case in 2005, and a charge sheet was filed on March 26, 2010, accusing him of amassing assets disproportionate to his legitimate income, between 1993 and 2006.

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

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