Moga, Punjab (June 04, 2014): Former Haryana chief minister and close friend of Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal, Om Prakash Chautala was granted interim bail by the Delhi High court on Tuesday (June 03).

The Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) leader Chautala is serving 10 years jail term in a teacher recruitment scam in Haryana and is lodged in Tihar jail in the national capital.

He was awarded the bail for carrying out post-cremation rituals of his brother who died on Sunday.

According to the media reports, Justice Kailash Gambhir ordered Chautala to set free on interim bail for three weeks and asked him to furnish a personal bond of Rs five lakh with two sureties of the like amount.

He attended the cremation of his younger brother Pratap Singh, son of late Devi Lal, at his native village in Haryana under custody of Tihar jail authorities on Monday.

The high court on Monday sought CBI’s response on Chautala’s plea seeking six weeks’ interim bail to attend funeral and perform other rituals of his younger brother

The CBI did not oppose it but requested the judge to reduce the time period from 21 to 12 days. It also urged the court to impose conditions on Chautala so that he may not flee from justice.