Former Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren will be taken to Hotwar Central Jail in Ranchi for a day as the PMLA Court has reserved its order on Enforcement Directorate (ED)‘s remand request. The Court will pronounce its order and Mr. Soren will be brought to the Court from jail on February 2.
Soon after he resigned as Chief Minister, Mr. Soren was arrested by the ED on Jan. 31. The agency had questioned him for over seven hours during the day.
The ED has claimed that a dozen land parcels in Ranchi, measuring about 8.5 acres in total, are in "illegal possession, occupation and use" of Mr. Soren and are proceeds of crime under the anti-money laundering law. The criminal case filed by the ED against the 48-year-Jharkhand Mukti Morcha leader emerges from a June 2023 ECIR following raids conducted against State government employee and Revenue Department Sub-Inspector Bhanu Pratap Prasad at various locations in the State.
