In a big setback to Hemant Soren, the Jharkhand High Court on Friday turned down plea by the former chief minister who challenged his arrest by the Enforcement Directorate in a money laundering case.
Soren was arrested on January 31 in the case after he resigned as the Jharkhand chief minister, and party loyalist and state transport minister Champai Soren was named as his successor. He was arrested after being grilled by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for seven hours in the case.
Last month, Soren moved the Supreme Court, saying the high court is not pronouncing a verdict on his plea challenging arrest by the Enforcement Directorate.
The ED is probing the alleged “huge amounts of proceeds of crime generated by manipulation of official records by showing dummy sellers and purchasers in the guise of forged/bogus documents to acquire huge parcels of land having value in crores’.
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