Ex Haryana chief minister Om Prakash Chautala, who was serving a decade term in prison in a teacher recruitment scam case, was released from the Tihar Jail here on July 2 after fulfilling due formalities, according prison officials information.

Chuatala is being released prematurely after the Delhi government, last month, passed an order granting a six-month special remission to those who have served nine-and-half years of their 10-year prison sentence. Since the Indian National Lok Dal supremo has already served nine years and nine months of his sentence, he is eligible for release.

According to officials, since Chautala has already served nine years and nine months of his sentence, he was eligible to get out of prison.  Chautala was jailed in 2013 in connection with the teacher recruitment scam case. He was on emergency parole since March 26, 2020, due to the Covid pandemic and was scheduled to surrender on February 21, 2021. However, his parole had been extended by the high court, a senior jail official had said earlier.

As on February 21, he had two months and 27 days of jail time left which has been counted as remitted.

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