New Delhi: Within the crosshairs of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for his alleged involvement in two cash laundering instances, Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren sought to show the tables on the central company Wednesday by submitting a case towards its officers for “harassing him”.
Soren lodged a primary info report (FIR) towards ED sleuths beneath the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act at a police station in Ranchi. Soren belongs to the Scheduled Tribes (ST) group.
The FIR pertained to the 29 January raid at his Delhi residence throughout which the central company seized Rs 36 lakh in money and a BMW X7, which price over Rs 1 crore.
The officers had gone to his home to query him, however couldn’t discover the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha chief.
The BJP claimed Tuesday that Soren, whose occasion is a constituent of the opposition INDIA bloc, had gone “missing”. Chief of the Opposition Babulal Marandi even introduced a reward of Rs 11,000 for info on his whereabouts.
Soren surfaced in Ranchi within the night and held a gathering along with his occasion MLAs.
The chief minister, who was questioned by the ED in Ranchi Wednesday, stated the Delhi raid was a method to harass and malign him and his total group.
The ED has stated the case is a few “huge racket of illegal change of ownership of land by the mafia”.
The company has made a number of arrests in reference to the case, amongst whom is Chhavi Ranjan, a 2011-batch IAS officer. Ranjan was beforehand director of the state’s social welfare division and was additionally deputy commissioner of Ranchi.
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