The Enforcement Directorate has moved the Jharkhand High Court challenging the First Information Report registered against its officials based on a complaint by former Chief Minister Hemant Soren alleging “harassment” by the probe agency and accusing them of “maligning” his entire community.
Hemant Soren filed a complaint against the probe agency’s officials on Wednesday, claiming that they attempted to “harass” and “malign” him as well as his entire community. After questioning Hemant Soren for seven hours in connection with a suspected money laundering case, the ED took him into custody on Wednesday night.
The investigation team has been questioning him about an alleged money laundering case. Senior JMM leader Champai Soren took the oath of office as Chief Minister on Friday afternoon, following his arrest.
“ED has moved to the Jharkhand High Court challenging the FIR registered against its officials by former CM Hemant Soren under the SC/ST Act. The petition was filed on 3rd February,” Officials said.
The complaint was filed at the SC ST police station in Ranchi.
The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha has 29 seats, its ally Congress has 17 and the RJD and the CPI (ML) have 1 seat each in the 81-member Jharkhand Assembly. With the support of 43 MLAs, the INDIA bloc has the numbers to sail through the floor test.
Meanwhile, the two-day Assembly session will begin from today. The Champai Soren-led coalition government in Jharkhand willl seek a trust vote. The Ranchi district administration has imposed Section 144 of CrPC within a 100-meter radius of the assembly building.
As per an official order, restrictions will be imposed from Monday at 8:00 am until Tuesday at 10:00 pm.
As part of the security arrangements to guarantee the smooth running of the special session and to avert any untoward incidents in the new Jharkhand Legislative Assembly building, these strict measures are put into effect.
