In the land scam case, summons has been sent to Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren. ED has called Hemant Soren for questioning on 24 August. ED summons Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren for questioning in land scam case on August 24, 13 arrested so far
New Delhi: In the land scam case, summons has been sent to Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren. ED has called Hemant Soren for questioning on 24 August. Earlier, the ED had called Soren for questioning on 14 August, which he skipped and sought more time from the agency. Previously, the Chief Minister was questioned in connection with the illegal mining case for around 10 hours along with his wife at ED’s Ranchi office.
This is not the first time that ED has called Hemant Soren for questioning. Even before this, ED had summoned Soren once. Earlier, in November 2022 also, the ED had questioned Chief Minister Hemant Soren in the illegal mining case. Hemant Soren is under the scanner of ED in two different cases.
So far 14 people have been arrested in connection with the land scam. Those arrested include Prem Prakash, a close aide of the chief minister, Chhavi Ranjan, former deputy commissioner of Ranchi, Kolkata-based businessman Amit Agarwal, Nucleus Mall owner Vishnu Agarwal and CO Bhanupratap. During the interrogation of the accused in this case, the names of some politicians also came to the fore.
Let us tell you that in this case of land scam, there is an allegation of buying and selling government and army land on the basis of fake documents in Cheshire Home Road, Ranchi.
In the case of land scam in Ranchi, investigation is being done on the basis of the report of the then Commissioner of Ranchi Division, Nitin Madan Kulkarni. After conducting an inquiry in connection with the land occupied by the army, the commissioner submitted the report to the government. It has been said in the report that illegal occupation of army land has been done on the basis of fake name and address. Ranchi Municipal Corporation lodged a complaint in this matter. ED registered this FIR as ECIR and started investigation.
The probe agency seized a large number of fake deeds from their possession. When the ED conducted a forensic examination of the seized documents, it was revealed that all the documents were forged. The districts’ names that did not exist before independence were mentioned along with pre-independence documents, and the PIN code from the 1970s was used in old documents.
