Administrator
06 May 2025
When the Supreme Court flagged the Enforcement Directorate’s “pattern” of making allegations against individuals, Chief Minister Hemant Soren welcomed it.
The apex court judgement is worth admiration, Soren felt. What SC said:”We have seen a number of complaints of ED. This is the pattern – just make allegations without any reference to anything,” Justice Abhay Oka orally observed during the hearing of the bail plea of a money-laundering accused in the Rs. 2,000-crore Chhattisgarh liquor scam, as reported by legal news websites.
The observation holds meaning in the case of Hemant Soren too. Jharkhand High Court had granted bail to Soren and pulled up the ED for arresting the Chief Minister without any credible “ evidence”.
The SC had upheld the HC’s judgement in Hemant Soren’s case of money laundering.
Indeed, the Union government and its agencies are expected to be equal votaries of liberty. Instead of channelizing their energy and resources for filing case, investigating it and collecting evidences, they can not and should not go for issuing summons and arresting the in -service- CM, thinks JharkhandStateNews.com.
In 2024, the ED charged Hemant Soren with indulged in money laundering linked with a land scam and put him in jail where he spent more than five months.
Later, when the court granted him bail observing that there was “ prima facie “ on “ evidence” showing his involvement in a money laundering, he roared that he was falsely implicated in the case.
Before his arrest, Chief Minister Hemant Soren had challenged the six summons by the ED and refused to come to the office of the ED to get quizzed on these ‘ false charges.”
By doing so, Chief Minister Hemant Soren in the backdrop of the court granting him bail citing that there was “ prima facie” no evidence substantiating the serious charges of money laundering in the alleged land scam,gained “ sympathy “ of the people.
Not only that the INDI Alliance led by him registered land slide victory in the assembly polls 2024-5, Soren appears to have passed a message to the entire State apparatus- central investigating agency like the ED and CBI that they may have the constitutional mandate to investigate the charges of criminal and financial offence(s), but it has no right to interrogate by summoning the constitutional post holders without recording valid circumstantial and or documentary evidence.
As a tribal CM of Jharkhand, he is again back on the ground in Ranchi, leading the state with more than an overwhelming majority on floor of the Assembly leaving the opposition BJP leak the dust.
The tribal leader expressed “surprise and shock” over the “inaction” of the top functionaries of the Union government in New Delhi and claimed that he would bring back the glory of the home land of tribals- Jharkhand.
