Abhay Chautala asked to seek prior permission to go abroad

A special CBI court today allowed the plea for exemption of personal appearance of INLD chief O P Chautala's son Abhay, an accused in a disproportionate assets case who had gone to attend Rio Olympics, and directed him to seek its prior permission in future to go abroad.
The court while allowing his plea, said no condition was there in the interim bail order to seek permission before leaving the country.
"There was no stipulated condition in these orders that accused will seek permission of the court before leaving the country. ...The exemption application of the accused is allowed," CBI special judge Sanjay Garg-1 said.

"In future, if accused is going abroad, he will seek permission of the court," the judge added.
On August 17, the CBI had sought cancellation of bail to Abhay for going to the Rio Olympics without the court's permission.
While seeking the court's direction to Abhay to surrender in the case, CBI had said he was no longer the President of Indian Olympic Association and there was "no public interest" in his visit to Brazil for the Olympics.

Abhay's counsel had submitted that no formal permission was sought since there was no condition in the bail order of the accused that he will not leave the country without permission of the court.

Special Public Prosecutor Ajay Kumar Gupta had argued that it was not necessary for the court to mention in the bail order that the accused is required to take its permission before leaving the country.
The court is currently recording evidence in the DA case
in which Ajay, son of former Haryana Chief Minister and INLD chief Om Prakash Chautala, is facing trial.
Two other similar cases are pending before it against his brother Abhay and their father. The cases were filed on a complaint by Haryana Congress leader Shamsher Singh Surjewala.
Ajay is serving 10-year imprisonment awarded in January 2013 by another CBI court in the 1999-2000 junior basic trained (JBT) teachers' recruitment scam.

Chautala was also sent to 10 years in jail in the JBT case. The Supreme Court had dismissed the appeals of Chautala and Ajay and had upheld their jail term.
CBI had chargesheeted Ajay in 2010 indicting him for possessing assets exceeding his legal income by 339.27 per cent. His legal income between May 1993 and May 2006 was Rs 8.17 crore, but he had acquired assets worth Rs 27.7 crore, it had alleged.
All the charges have been denied by Chautala and his sons.