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The CBI today informed the Supreme Court that former Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala and his MP son Ajay Chautala can be prosecuted in the junior teacher appointment scam of 1999-2000 without securing a sanction from the Governor or the Lok Sabha Speaker. Additional Solicitor General Amrender Sharan told a Bench comprising Justices Ashok Bhan and Dalveer Bhandari that there was no need for seeking the Governor's sanction to prosecute Chautala as he no longer held an office of an elected representative. In his son's case, he said there was no need for taking a sanction from the Lok Sabha Speaker as he was a Rajya Sabha MP and as per the law an Upper House member can be prosecuted without taking a sanction. The agency said, in connection with the scam, it had sought a sanction from the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) to prosecute two IAS officers Vidya Dhar and Sanjeev Kumar for which it was granted six weeks. Vidya Dhar was the Officer on Special Duty to the Chief Minister and Kumar, an IAS officer of Haryana cadre, had blown the whistle on the scam involving the appointment of 3,206 junior basic trained teacher (JBT) in 1999-2000. The PIL was filed in the apex court in 2003 alleging that the list of selected candidates was changed to favour some candidates at the behest of Chautala, who was the Chief Minister of the state from 1995 to 2000. The investigation of the scam was later handed over to the CBI. The apex court had earlier said a report of the investigating agency was vital for deciding the matter. In his defence, Chautala had alleged that it was Kumar who had indulged in the corrupt practices and changed the list. After the inquiry, the CBI had not ruled out the involvement of Kumar in the scam and had initiated steps to prosecute him as well. During the four-year-long investigation, the CBI raided the house of Chautala and had questioned his son.
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