Edited by Deepali Verma
Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren has filed a complaint against officials of Enforcement Directorate, who are questioning him in connection with a land scam case, ANI reported.
As per the Ranchi Police, the complaint filed by Soren has been received at Dhurwa police station.
Currently, the ED officials are questioning Soren, who had skipped numerous summons issued to him. Hence, later the security was tightened along with Section 144 being imposed around his residence. The CM’s party Jharkhand Mukti Morcha was held to organise a show of strength with the MLAs assembling at the CM’s residence on Kanke Road.
“Our chief minister is subjected to deliberate harassment by the ED on directions from the Centre,” one of the agitators said in conversation with the news agency PTI.
Soren, 48, had earlier been subjected to questioning in connection with the case on January 20. The interrogation remained incomplete on that day when he was grilled for nearly seven hours, said an official.
The chief minister is being questioned regarding a “huge racket of illegal change of ownership of land by the mafia” in Jharkhand, ED officials have said.
In an email addressed to the probe agency, Soren had laid claims that its actions were “motivated by political agenda” to cause disruption in the state government’s functioning, and claimed that the insistence to record his statement again on or before January 31 “reeked of malice”.
