The Jharkhand high court on Wednesday dismissed a public interest action( PIL) seeking a inquiry by central agencies against principal minister Hemant Soren and family members, people apprehensive of the development said. The bench of principal justice Sanjaya Kumar Mishra and Anand Sen, which had reserved its order on November 29, 2023, nominated the PIL filed by activist Sunil Mahto as “non-maintainable ”.
The supplicant had supplicated for a inquiry by the central agencies, including the Central Bureau of Investigation( CBI) and the Enforcement Directorate( ED), against Soren for allegedly “ immorally granting mining parcel to himself and an artificial plot to his close family members ”. “ The bench ruled that the Supreme Court has formerly rejected another PIL with analogous allegations. This PIL also has analogous data, hence, this too isnon-maintainable and is being dismissed, ” an advocate involved in the hail said.
The Supreme Court on November 8, 2022, dismissed the PIL filed by one Shiv Shankar Sharma seeking a CBI and ED inquiry against Soren, citing questionable credentials of the supplicant besides citing the high court rules for filing PILs. The high court’s verdict came as a breath for the chief minister who's formerly under the ED’s scanner. Soren had been summoned by the agency six times in the once three months, in an ongoing plutocrat laundering inquiry related to an alleged land fiddle in the state capital.
During the hail, advocate general Rajiv Ranjan had sought redundance of the solicitation, arguing that Mahto’s solicitation is analogous in terms of data raised in the solicitation dismissed by the apex court. The supplicant on the other hand, argued that his PIL was different as he'd also introduced new data about granting of artificial plot and his solicitation was filed as per the rules.
Mahto in his PIL had contended that 11 acres at Chanho in Ranchi quarter had been distributed to a company possessed by the chief minister’s woman and his family- in- law in 2021 while another 88 numeric in Angara block in the same quarter had been distributed to Soren himself the same time. The bench of principal justice Sanjaya Kumar Mishra, who retires on December 31, still, nominated the solicitationnon-maintainable and dismissed the PIL.
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