In a setback for Jharkhand ex-Chief Minister Hemant Soren, the Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain his plea and requested him to approach the High Court. A bench comprising Justices Sanjiv Khanna, M M Sundresh and Bela M Trivedi whereas listening to the plea of jailed JMM chief noticed, ‘Right discussion board is high court docket.’ The JMM chief filed a plea earlier than the Supreme Court in Delhi on Thursday difficult his arrest.
The court docket on Thursday despatched Soren to judicial custody for a day. The ED had sought a 10-day custody.
What is the case
The legal case filed by the federal company in opposition to the 48-year-Jharkhand Mukfti Morcha (JMM) chief emerges from a June 2023 ECIR (ED time period for FIR) following raids in April carried out in opposition to state authorities worker and income division Sub-Inspector Bhanu Pratap Prasad at varied places within the state. It additionally alleged {that a} dozen land parcels in Ranchi measuring about 8.5 acres in complete are in “illegal possession, occupation and use” of the JMM chief and are proceeds of crime beneath the anti-money laundering regulation. The company, in accordance to official data, recovered 11 trunks holding voluminous property paperwork from Prasad’s premises together with 17 unique registers.
