The Supreme Court has delivered a serious blow to former Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) had arrested Soren in connection with the money laundering case, but the Supreme Court declined to hear the case on Friday, February 2. Hemant Soren, the former chief minister of Jharkhand, has not received any relief from the Supreme Court following the High Court.
“The Chief Minister should confess his crime”
Pratul Shahdev, a spokesman for the Bharatiya Janata Party, stated that he had previously counseled Hemant Soren against playing court. Simultaneously, the Supreme Court declared that it would be improper to hear each petitioner directly. Another constitutional institution is the High Court. Had I gone there first. Pratul Shahdev, a spokesman for the Bharatiya Janata Party, stated that the Chief Minister ought to own up to his mistake and stop wasting time.
Hemant Soren was arrested on Wednesday
Hemant Soren was actually detained by the central agency on Wednesday, January 31, following his interrogation regarding the money laundering probe related to the land scam case. On Thursday, February 1, he appeared in court and was placed under judicial custody for a single day. The JMM leader had accused the ED of orchestrating his arrest as part of a deliberate plot by the national government ahead of the upcoming Lok Sabha elections in a few months. Soren asked for his arrest to be ruled arbitrary, unreasonable, and a violation of his fundamental rights in his Supreme Court petition.
During Soren’s appearance before a special PMLA court in Ranchi on Thursday, February 1, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) asserted that the former Chief Minister of Jharkhand had unlawfully obtained 12 adjacent 8.5-acre land parcels in Ranchi. The 2023 raid against Bhanu Pratap Prasad, a sub-inspector of the state’s revenue department who had collaborated with the land mafia, is connected to the central agency’s investigation into Hemant Soren.