Former Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren was on February 2 remanded to five days’ Enforcement Directorate custody by a special PMLA court in Ranchi in connection with a money-laundering case linked to an alleged land fraud, lawyers said.
Mr. Soren was arrested on Wednesday night after a seven-hour grilling by the ED in the money laundering case. He resigned as the Chief Minister before that.
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