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Former Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren leaves jail after he was granted bail in land scam case. (PTI file image)
Former Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren was granted bail on Friday by the High Court in a land scam case
Ex-Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren was released from jail after he was granted bail by the High Court in a money laundering case linked to a land scam on Friday morning.
Addressing the media after being released on bail, Soren said, “After 5 months, I have come out of jail legally. The last 5 months remained worrisome for Jharkhand. The whole country knows why I went to jail.”
Soren was granted bail two weeks after the court had reserved its order on the plea.
A single bench of Justice Rongon Mukhopadhyay granted bail to Soren on a Rs 50,000 bail bond and two sureties of the same amount.
Soren’s counsel said that the court held the ex-chief minister prima facie is not guilty of the offence.
“The court has held that prima facie he is not guilty of the offence and there is no likelihood of the petitioner committing an offence when on bail,” senior counsel Arunabh Chowdhury was quoted by PTI as saying.
The executive president of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM), Hemant Soren was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on January 31 in connection with a money laundering case. The 48-year-old politician had been lodged in Birsa Munda jail in Ranchi since his arrest.
