Dewan Chand

Dewan Chand is an Indo-Fijian educationist and politician.

Work

Chand had been a secondary school principal, and an active member of the Fiji Teachers Union before joining politics. 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. 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.

Controversy

In September 2012 he was convicted on indecent assault and defiling a girl under the age of 13 and sentenced to four years imprisonment. The conviction was upheld on appeal. He was subsequently sacked from the Fiji Football Association.