<p class="title">New Delhi,</p>.<p class="title">The Delhi High Court on Wednesday extended by one week parole granted to IAS officer Sanjiv Kumar, who was convicted and sentenced to 10-year jail term in the case of illegal recruitment of junior basic teachers (JBT) in Haryana.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Justice Vinod Goel granted the relief to Kumar, who said he needed to be out on parole to finalise a match for the marriage of his daughter.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Kumar, who argued in person, was earlier granted parole for a month till June 29 by the high court and he sought an extension of the relief for four weeks.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He submitted that he has now found a match for his 31-year-old daughter, who is scheduled to return from London on June 29, and he was hopeful that the marriage would be finalised.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He added that he was a whistleblower and complainant in the JBT scam case and was being incarcerated.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The court noted that last month also the officer granted parole to undertake an exam and negotiate the marriage of his daughter.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Kumar along with former Haryana Chief Minister O P Chautala and 53 others was convicted and sentenced in the case of illegal recruitment of 3,206 junior basic teachers (JBT) in 2000.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Kumar, the then Director of Primary Education in Haryana, had initially exposed the scam after he filed a plea in the Supreme Court. Later, he was also found to be involved in the scam during a CBI probe.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Kumar along with O P Chautala, his son Ajay Chautala and 52 others were convicted and sentenced to varying jail terms in the case by a special CBI court in January 2013.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Apart from the Chautalas and Kumar, Chautala’s former Officer on Special Duty Vidya Dhar and political advisor to the then Haryana CM Sher Singh Badshami were also given 10-year jail terms.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The others who were given 10-year jail terms are Madan Lal Kalra, Durga Dutt Pradhan, Bani Singh, Ram Singh and Daya Saini.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Apart from them, one convict was handed a five-year jail sentence and the rest 44 were given four years of imprisonment.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Among the 55 convicts, 16 were women officials. </p>
<p class="title">New Delhi,</p>.<p class="title">The Delhi High Court on Wednesday extended by one week parole granted to IAS officer Sanjiv Kumar, who was convicted and sentenced to 10-year jail term in the case of illegal recruitment of junior basic teachers (JBT) in Haryana.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Justice Vinod Goel granted the relief to Kumar, who said he needed to be out on parole to finalise a match for the marriage of his daughter.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Kumar, who argued in person, was earlier granted parole for a month till June 29 by the high court and he sought an extension of the relief for four weeks.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He submitted that he has now found a match for his 31-year-old daughter, who is scheduled to return from London on June 29, and he was hopeful that the marriage would be finalised.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He added that he was a whistleblower and complainant in the JBT scam case and was being incarcerated.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The court noted that last month also the officer granted parole to undertake an exam and negotiate the marriage of his daughter.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Kumar along with former Haryana Chief Minister O P Chautala and 53 others was convicted and sentenced in the case of illegal recruitment of 3,206 junior basic teachers (JBT) in 2000.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Kumar, the then Director of Primary Education in Haryana, had initially exposed the scam after he filed a plea in the Supreme Court. Later, he was also found to be involved in the scam during a CBI probe.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Kumar along with O P Chautala, his son Ajay Chautala and 52 others were convicted and sentenced to varying jail terms in the case by a special CBI court in January 2013.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Apart from the Chautalas and Kumar, Chautala’s former Officer on Special Duty Vidya Dhar and political advisor to the then Haryana CM Sher Singh Badshami were also given 10-year jail terms.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The others who were given 10-year jail terms are Madan Lal Kalra, Durga Dutt Pradhan, Bani Singh, Ram Singh and Daya Saini.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Apart from them, one convict was handed a five-year jail sentence and the rest 44 were given four years of imprisonment.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Among the 55 convicts, 16 were women officials. </p>