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.
[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.