Hemant Soren: Chief Minister Hemant Soren got a big relief from Jharkhand High Court on Wednesday.
The court exempted him from appearing personally in the MP-MLA Special Court of Ranchi in the case related to disregard of ED summons.
The bench of Justice Anil Kumar Chaudhary has issued a notice to ED on this and directed it to file its reply.
The next hearing of the case has been fixed for December 16. The MP-MLA Special Court had on November 25 rejected Soren’s plea seeking exemption from personal appearance and ordered him to appear on December 4. (Hemant Soren)
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Took cognizance after hearing on March 4
Hemant Soren filed a petition in the Jharkhand High Court against this order, which was debated by his advocates Piyush Chitresh, Dipankar Roy and Shrey Mishra during the hearing held on Wednesday.
A complaint was filed by the ED against Hemant Soren in the CJM court on February 19, 2024. In this, the agency has said that ten summons were sent to Hemant Soren for questioning in the land scam.
But, he appeared on only two of these summons. This is illegal under section 63 of PMLA (Prevention of Money Laundering Act) and section 174 of IPC.
The court had taken cognizance of this matter after hearing it on March 4. Later the case was transferred to MP-MLA Special Court.
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After this, Hemant Soren had filed a petition on July 5 requesting that he be exempted from personal presence during the hearing in the complaint filed against him by the ED alleging summons disregard. Sorren)
His petition was rejected by the court of MP-MLA Special Court Judge Sarthak Sharma. ED had sent summons to Hemant Soren for the first time to appear on 14 August 2023 regarding the land scam related to Badgai area of Ranchi.
After this, summons were sent to him on 19 August, 1 September, 17 September, 26 September, 11 December, 29 December and in 2024 on 13 January, 22 January and 27 January.
He was interrogated on January 31 on the tenth summons and after that he was arrested.