Dewan Chand

Dewan Chand is a Indo-Fijian educationist, politician and convicted sex abuser.

Dewan Chand
Member of the Fijian Parliament
for Laucala Indian
In office
13 May 2006 – 5 December 2006
Preceded byKamlesh Kumar Arya
Succeeded byNone (Parliament disestablished)
Personal details
Political partyFiji Labour Party
ProfessionTeacher, Trade Unionist

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]

References
  1. FLP names first lot of candidates
  2. "Election results by the count". Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2007-04-21.
  3. Navua’s Sharma joins Fiji FA chiefs Archived 2012-03-06 at the Wayback Machine
  4. "Chand gets four years". Fiji Sun. 13 September 2012. Retrieved 9 February 2023.
  5. "Former FFA VP loses appeal". Fiji Village. 23 February 2013. Retrieved 9 February 2023.
  6. "Dewan Chand no longer Fiji FA VP". Fiji Village. 10 October 2012. Retrieved 9 February 2023.


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