Ranchi: BJP state spokesperson Pratul Shahdeo said that the cover-up operation of the huge land looting that has taken place in Jharkhand is still going on. The theft in the record room immediately after the ED chargesheet is a big conspiracy to hide the land scam.
Pratul said that it is unbelievable that many land documents were stolen from the record room by breaking the locks of the cupboard. Police personnel are always deployed in this complex. Pratul said that as the story of land loot is unfolding, one after another the white-collared people are being exposed.
Pratul has demanded from Chief Minister Champai Soren to immediately order a CBI investigation on this issue. Otherwise his entire government will come under suspicion. How did such a theft happen in a complex where policemen are present? That too when ED is investigating only the documents related to land loot.
Pratul said that after the ED’s charge sheet, there seems to be a direct connection between Hemant Soren and the loot of 8.86 acres of Bargain land. He said that the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha had repeatedly said that Hemant Soren has nothing to do with land. But the charge sheet made it clear to Nexus that this is their benami property.
Pratul said that it is in the charge sheet that Bhanu Pratap along with other officials used to run a land grabbing syndicate. When his place was raided, a brown colored file was also recovered, in which documents related to Badgai and other lands were found.
Pratul said that in the chat between former Chief Minister Hemant Soren and Vinod, a map of the construction of a marriage hall in this Lalu Khatal, Bariatu area has been sent and there is no other such big land in this entire area. Pratul said that Baijnath Munda and Shyamal Pahan, who are also relatives of accused Rajkumar Pahan, have said that this land has been in the possession of Hemant Soren since 2010.
Caretaker Santosh Munda said that the land has belonged to Hemant for 14-15 years. Pratul said that now CO Manoj Kumar has clearly said that he was asked to verify this land by Chief Minister’s Press Advisor Pintu’s Principal Secretary Uday Shankar. This has been confirmed by Abhishek Pintu’s Principal Secretary Uday Shankar and Abhishek Pintu himself in their statements given to ED.
In fact, Pintu has also said that he had asked Uday Shankar to verify two more lands of Hemant Soren. In the file seized by ED, it is written as CMO Argent, Bhuihari. This writing alone tells the entire story of the robbery. There is a very sensational paper among the papers seized by ED.
In which the name of the tenant was missing from the blank page of the register of this land. That means there were preparations to add Hemant Soren’s name to it. The SAR Court completed the entire investigation in just 20 days between January 9, 2024 and January 29, 2024 and ordered the return of the land. Meanwhile, verification of the land was also done. Three notices were also issued. This was the only case in this court, in which the verdict was given in 20 days. This is also a record.
Rajkumar Pahan’s ancestors sold about 40 acres of land to different people between 1978 and 1989. Only this 8.86 acres of land was vacant, which was captured. Two bills of Khushboo Munda are mentioned in the ED charge sheet. Khushboo Munda is the daughter of Santosh Munda. Bought refrigerator in 2017 and a smart TV in 2022. The address of this land has been given. So it is clearly visible that at this time Santosh Munda was living on this land, who himself is saying that this land belonged to Hemant and it was not in the possession of Rajkumar Pahan.
Pratul said that former Chief Minister Hemant is denying the ownership rights of the BMW car. In his statement to the ED, he himself said that on the night of 28 January 2024, I left in my blue colored BMW car. That means he himself believes that he is its owner. It is mentioned in the charge sheet that he himself liked this car after visiting the showroom.
Pratul said that former Ranchi DC Chhavi Ranjan has also said in his statement that Pintu’s secretary Uday used to often ask him for verification of the land. Pratul said that now Jharkhand Mukti Morcha and Hemant Soren may say anything, but they have direct connections with this land of Badgai and they had illegally occupied this land with the help of the government machinery.