The jharkhand High court has maintained the relief given to chief minister hemant Soren in the case related to disobeying ED summons. Hearing the matter on Monday, the court ordered to maintain exemption from personal appearance in the MP-MLA Special court of ranchi till january 16. During the earlier hearing in this case, the bench of Justice Anil Kumar Chaudhary had issued notice to ED and directed it to file a reply. ED did not file a reply till Monday. The court has given another chance to the agency for this and fixed the next hearing of the case on january 16.
Petition has been filed in jharkhand High Court
It is worth mentioning that the MP-MLA Special court had rejected Soren's petition seeking exemption from personal appearance on november 25 and ordered him to appear on december 4. hemant Soren filed a petition in the jharkhand High court against this order, on which his advocates piyush Chitresh, Dipankar Roy and Shrey Mishra argued during the hearing.
Appeared on two summons out of ten
A complaint was filed against hemant Soren in the CJM court on february 19, 2024 on behalf of the ED. In this, the agency has told that ten summons were sent to hemant Soren for questioning in the land scam, but he appeared on only two of these summons. This is illegal under section 63 of PMLA (Prevention of Money Laundering Act) and section 174 of IPC.
This petition was rejected
The court took cognizance on march 4 after hearing the matter. Later the case was transferred to the MP-MLA Special Court. After this, hemant Soren filed a petition on July 5 and requested that he be exempted from personal appearance during the hearing of the complaint filed against him by the ED alleging contempt of summons. The court of Judge Sarthak Sharma of MP-MLA Special court rejected his petition.
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