UditVani Jharkhand : Chief Minister Hemant Soren got a relief on Monday from the Supreme Court as the top court held that the Public Interest Litigations (PILs) filed before the Jharkhand High Court seeking a probe against him in an alleged mining scam case were not maintainable.
While pronouncing the judgement a bench comprising Chief Justice of India UU Lalit and Justices Ravindra Bhat and Sudhanshu Dhulia, said, “We have allowed these two appeals and have set aside the June 3, 2022 order passed by the Jharkhand High Court, holding that these PILs were not maintainable.”
The order by the Jharkhand high court had upheld the maintainability of a PIL for a probe against the chief minister in a mining lease case.
Earlier this year, Soren had said that a petition (seeking a probe by the CBI and ED into a stone mining lease case) was an attempt to “destabilise the democratically-elected state government”.
In an affidavit filed in the HC, Soren had also alleged that the petitioner held a “personal grudge” against him and that his (the petitioner’s) had allegedly tried to implicate JMM founder Shibu Soren in a murder case in 2006.
The Election Commission (EC) had also started a probe into the matter following claims that a mining lease on government land was granted to Soren last year, which amounts to holding an “office of profit”.
Meanwhile, Soren has written a letter to the EC asking for a copy of Governor Ramesh Bais’s request to the EC for a relook of its opinion on the mining case.
In August, the EC had sent its opinion to the Governor on Soren’s possible disqualification over his mining lease while being a mines minister.
Governor, Ramesh Bais has not made the opinion public.
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