CM Hemant Soren gets relief from High Court!
Chief minister hemant Soren got a big relief from jharkhand High court on Wednesday. The court exempted him from personally appearing in the MP-MLA Special court in ranchi in the case related to disobeying the ED summons. Justice Anil Kumar Choudhary's bench has issued a notice to the ED on this and directed it to file a reply.
The next hearing of the case has been fixed on december 16. The MP-MLA Special court had rejected Soren's petition seeking exemption from personal appearance on november 25 and ordered him to appear on december 4.
hemant Soren filed a petition in the jharkhand High court against this order, on which his advocates piyush Chitresh, Dipankar Roy and Shrey Mishra argued during the hearing on Wednesday. A complaint was filed against hemant Soren in the CJM court on behalf of the ED on february 19, 2024. In this, the agency has told 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.
Petition of summons contempt was filed on July 5
The court took cognizance on march 4 after hearing the matter. Later this case was transferred to the MP-MLA Special Court. After this, hemant Soren filed a petition on July 5 and requested that he be exempted from personal appearance during the hearing in the complaint filed against him by the ED alleging contempt of summons. The court of Judge Sarthak Sharma of MP-MLA Special court rejected his petition.