Dewan Chand

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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]

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