Om Prakash Chautala and his son arrested in the teacher recruitment scam

ARREST \\ Former Haryana chief minister Om Prakash Chautala, and his legislator son, Ajay Chautala, were arrested in January along with 53 others on the orders of a Special Court in New Delhi for the illegal recruitment of teachers in the state. The accused have been sent to Tihar Jail. The Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) chief and his son were accused of illegally recruiting over 3,200 junior basic trained (JBT) teachers in Haryana when he headed the government in the state during 1999-2000. The arrest comes as a major blow to the party which is the major opposition party in Haryana as Assembly elections are due in 2014 in the state. The other 53 convicts include senior IAS officers Vidya Dhar and Sanjiv Kumar. Around 62 people were originally accused in the case. While six died during the trial, one was let go during the framing of charges.