“I was kept behind bars for 5 months...We are seeing how the judicial process is taking years not just days or months...Today, it is a message for the whole country about how a conspiracy was hatched against us...The fight we started and the resolutions we made, we will work to fulfil them.” 

This is what Ex-CM Hemant Soren told ANI after he walked out of Birsa Munda Central jail on bail in Ranchi today. 

Soren was granted bail in the case by the Jharkhand High Court two weeks after the court had reserved its order on the plea.

A single bench of Justice Rongon Mukhopadhyay granted bail to Soren on two bonds of Rs 50,000 each and two sureties of the same amount. Soren's counsel told media persons that the court held the ex-chief minister prima facie is “not guilty of the offence.” 

The court has held that prima facie he is not guilty of the offence and there is no likelihood of the petitioner committing an offence when on bail.