ED summons Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren in alleged land rip-off case
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RANCHI: The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday despatched summon to Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren in an alleged land rip-off. According to the ED sources, Soren has been requested to seem for questioning at its zonal workplace in Ranchi on August 14.
In November 2022, Soren was grilled by ED for about 10 hours in reference to an unlawful mining case.
The federal company has been probing two main circumstances of cash laundering within the state. The first case is said to unlawful mining within the state and the second is said to alleged land scams within the state capital.
At least 13 individuals, together with Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer Chhavi Ranjan and two businessmen- Amit Agrawal of Kolkata and Bishnu Agrawal-, who owns purchasing malls in Ranchi, have already been arrested in reference to the land rip-off.
Bishnu Agrawal has been arrested primarily based on the FIR registered with Sadar police station for the fraudulent sale of a one-acre plot in upscale Cheshire Home Road in Ranchi. Besides the Cheshire Home Road property and 9.3-acre plot at Namkum, Agrawal, in connivance with DC Chhavi Ranjan and others, additionally purchased a 5.83-acre plot at Bariatu in Ranchi, which is in possession of the Indian Defence institution since 1949.
Investigation revealed {that a} racket of land mafia is lively in Jharkhand which used to forge the legacy data in Kolkata and Ranchi.
Earlier, ED carried out 41 searches and 5 surveys on this matter throughout which, a number of incriminating items of proof like cast seals of the land income division, cast land deeds, data of distribution of proceeds of crime amongst them, pictures doing forgery, proof of giving bribe to Government officers and so forth, have been seized.
Meanwhile, state BJP Chief Babulal Marandi has termed Soren as essentially the most corrupt Chief Minister in unbiased India, who has been summoned twice by the ED.
RANCHI: The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday despatched summon to Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren in an alleged land rip-off. According to the ED sources, Soren has been requested to seem for questioning at its zonal workplace in Ranchi on August 14.
In November 2022, Soren was grilled by ED for about 10 hours in reference to an unlawful mining case.
The federal company has been probing two main circumstances of cash laundering within the state. The first case is said to unlawful mining within the state and the second is said to alleged land scams within the state capital.googletag.cmd.push(perform() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
At least 13 individuals, together with Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer Chhavi Ranjan and two businessmen- Amit Agrawal of Kolkata and Bishnu Agrawal-, who owns purchasing malls in Ranchi, have already been arrested in reference to the land rip-off.
Bishnu Agrawal has been arrested primarily based on the FIR registered with Sadar police station for the fraudulent sale of a one-acre plot in upscale Cheshire Home Road in Ranchi. Besides the Cheshire Home Road property and 9.3-acre plot at Namkum, Agrawal, in connivance with DC Chhavi Ranjan and others, additionally purchased a 5.83-acre plot at Bariatu in Ranchi, which is in possession of the Indian Defence institution since 1949.
Investigation revealed {that a} racket of land mafia is lively in Jharkhand which used to forge the legacy data in Kolkata and Ranchi.
Earlier, ED carried out 41 searches and 5 surveys on this matter throughout which, a number of incriminating items of proof like cast seals of the land income division, cast land deeds, data of distribution of proceeds of crime amongst them, pictures doing forgery, proof of giving bribe to Government officers and so forth, have been seized.
Meanwhile, state BJP Chief Babulal Marandi has termed Soren as essentially the most corrupt Chief Minister in unbiased India, who has been summoned twice by the ED.
