The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday registered another case against former Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren for disobeying its summons. The Central agency has filed complaint number 3952/2024 at the Chief Judicial Magistrate's court, which has scheduled the next hearing of the case for February 27 after a preliminary hearing on Tuesday.
In its complaint, ED stated that it had issued 10 summons to former CM Hemant Soren in the land scam-related case, out of which Hemant Soren appeared before the ED only twice. The agency said that Soren had disregarded the ED summons. The complaint has been filed under Section 63 of PMLA and Section 174 of IPC against Soren for disobeying the summons.
Notably, the ED had issued the first summon to former CM Hemant Soren in August 2023 in the land scam-related case and had asked to appear before it on August 14. After this, the agency sent nine summons to Soren but he appeared only twice before the agency on January 20 and January 31, 2024.
ED finally arrested Soren on January 31, 2024, after he duped ED officials and disappeared from his Delhi residence on January 29. Soren remained traceless for about 40 hours after he disappeared from Delhi and suddenly surfaced in Ranchi on January 30.
The ED officials reached Soren’s official residence on January 31 and after a five-hour interrogation arrested him. Soren resigned from the post of Chief Minister after ED officials apprised him of his imminent arrest.
After his arrest, Hemant Soren was interrogated for 13 days by ED, after which he was sent to judicial custody till February 22.
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