New Delhi: A Delhi court on Tuesday issued
summons against former Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash
Chautala in a case of alleged disproportionate assets against
him.
Special CBI Judge P S Teji issued the order seeking the
presence of Chautala, an MLA of Haryana, before it on May
three after taking cognisance of a chargesheet filed against
him.
CBI had on March 26 filed the chargesheet against
Chautala for allegedly possessing assets worth Rs six crore
disproportionate to known sources of his income between 1993
and 2006.
75-year-old Chautala is a five-time Chief Minister and had
last held the post between July 1999 to March 2005. He
currently represents Uchana Kalan constituency of Hissar
district in Haryana Assembly.
According to CBI, Chautala was found in possession of
assets to the tune of Rs 6.09 crore disproportionate to known
sources of his income. It is roughly 189 per cent of his
income of Rs 3.22 crore during the period.
It claimed Chautala had been found in possession of
immovable and movable assets worth Rs 7.43 crore in addition
to the expenditure incurred by him for Rs 1.91 crore during
the period.
CBI registered a case in a designated court here in April
2006 and searched 24 premises of the Chautalas in Delhi,
Haryana, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, Uttaranchal and
Chandigarh during which it had sezied Rs 13 lakh in cash and
frozen five bank accounts containing Rs 1.34 crore belonging
to Chautala and his family members.
CBI had earlier filed the chargesheets against two
sons of Chautala Ajay and Abhay Singh Chautala, both
Haryana MLAs, on the charge of possessing disproportionate
assets.
PTI
First Published: Tuesday, April 20, 2010, 22:49