Dewan Chand | |
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Member of the Fijian Parliament for Laucala Indian | |
In office 13 May 2006 –5 December 2006 | |
Preceded by | Kamlesh Kumar Arya |
Succeeded by | None (Parliament disestablished) |
Personal details | |
Political party | Fiji Labour Party |
Profession | Teacher,Trade Unionist |
Dewan Chand is a Indo-Fijian educationist,politician and convicted sex abuser.
Chand had been a secondary school principal,and an active member of the Fiji Teachers Union before joining politics. [1] He was elected to Parliament as a Fiji Labour Party candidate in the 2006 Fijian general election,winning 90% of the votes cast in the Laucala Indian Communal Constituency. [2] He lost his seat when parliament was dissolved following the 2006 Fijian coup d'état.
In October 2009,he was re-elected the northern vice president of Fiji Football Association. [3]
In September 2012 he was convicted on indecent assault and defiling a girl under the age of 13 and sentenced to four years imprisonment. [4] The conviction was upheld on appeal. [5] He was subsequently sacked from the Fiji Football Association. [6]