Ranchi: The ED team investigating the land scam case has attached 8.5 acres of land located in Baragai area of Bariatu. ED will soon give official information to the media in this matter.
On the other hand, ED on Saturday filed a prosecution complaint against former CM Hemant Soren, his friend Vinod Singh, revenue officer Bhanu Prasad, besides Hilarius Kachhap and Rajkumar Pahan in the land scam case. On February 11, ED officials investigating the land scam case had taken Bhanu Pratap Prasad, the then Revenue Sub-Inspector of Baragain area of Ranchi, to the plot located in Bariatu area for physical verification.
Bhanu admitted before the ED team that she had got the measurement of this land done through Amin Shashinder Mahato. Bhanu said that she was told that the measurement of the land of ‘Boss’ had to be done. The said land is divided into a total of 12 plots. He had also given information to ED about which plot is in whose name.
Central investigation agency ED has filed a Prosecution Complaint (PC) in the money laundering case registered against former Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren. On Saturday, ED officials filed a Prosecution Complaint (PC) in the special court of Ranchi PMLA (Prevention of Money Laundering Act).
A Prosecution Complaint (PC) of about five and a half thousand pages has been submitted, in which detailed information has been given to the court as to whose role is played in the money laundering through land scam. In the PC filed by ED, along with Hemant Soren, the names of Halka employee Bhanu Pratap of Badagain zone, architect Vinod Singh, Hilarius Kachhap and Rajkumar Pahan are included.
The court may soon take cognizance of ED’s Prosecution Complaint (PC). On March 21, former Chief Minister Hemant Soren was presented before the PMLA court. After which the court has extended the period of his judicial custody till April 5. Hemant Soren is currently lodged in judicial custody in Birsa Munda Central Jail.
The then Chief Minister Hemant Soren was arrested on the night of 31 January in a money laundering case after resigning. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) had arrested Hemant Soren after interrogating him for more than seven hours in the land scam case.