Former Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren Sent to 5-Day ED Custody by PMLA Court

Ranchi: Former Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren was sent to 5-day Enforcement Directorate (ED) custody in a money laundering case linked to a land scam by a Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court in Ranchi on Friday.

ED officials arrested Soren on Wednesday night soon after he resigned from the post of CM of the state.

According to the ED, Soren is the key beneficiary in alleged land-related irregularities in Ranchi, where a network of brokers and businessmen were allegedly working over the years to create fake deeds of landed parcels by forging records in the registrar’s offices and further selling them off.

On Friday, JMM leader Champai Soren was sworn in as the CM of Jharkhand.

Hemant Soren has denied the charges against him. “They will arrest me but I am not scared because I am the son of Shibu Soren. Fighting is in my blood. I have no connection with the land. I have been implicated based on fake papers,” he said.