Hemant Soren arrest: The incidence of chief ministers being arrested in Jharkhand isn’t unprecedented. Since the formation of the state, there have been a complete of six chief ministers. Among them, three have confronted arrest in numerous instances. Additionally, the state has also witnessed the imposition of President’s rule on three events.
Meanwhile, Hemant Soren, the chief president of Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM), has turn out to be the third chief minister of the state to be arrested. The Enforcement Directorate took him into custody shortly after he resigned from his place in reference to a cash laundering case associated to an alleged land rip-off on Wednesday night time after greater than seven hours of questioning associated to an alleged land fraud case. So far, 14 folks have been arrested within the case.
Jharkhand Chief Ministers who’ve been arrested are:
Shibu Soren
Hemant Soren’s father, Shibu Soren, served because the Chief Minister of Jharkhand for 10 days in 2005, from 2008 to 2009, and from 2009 to 2010. In 2006, Shibu Soren was sentenced to life imprisonment by a Delhi court docket within the kidnapping and homicide case of personal secretary Shashi Nath Jha. However, in 2007, the Delhi High Court acquitted him due to lack of stable proof. The Supreme Court also upheld the choice in 2018. Additionally, in 2004, a Jamtara sub-divisional judicial Justice of the Peace’s court docket issued a non-bailable warrant towards Shibu Soren. Consequently, Soren had to resign from the place of Union Coal Minister within the Manmohan Singh authorities on July 24, 2004. However, in March 2008, the Fast-Track Court acquitted Soren citing lack of proof.
Madhu Koda
Madhu Koda served because the Chief Minister of Jharkhand from 2006 to 2008. During his tenure as CM, he confronted allegations of corruption, together with cash laundering and amassing disproportionate property. He was accused of involvement within the mining rip-off and incomes greater than Rs 4,000 crore. Koda was arrested in 2009 in reference to the mining rip-off and was launched on bail in 2013. Subsequently, in 2017, he was convicted, sentenced to three years in jail, and fined Rs 25 lakh.
It is pertinent to point out that BJP’s Raghubar Das was the one chief minister to serve a full five-year time period (2014 to 2019).
