The Supreme Court rules that former Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren’s plea in a money laundering case was “infructuous.”

In his appeal, Hemant Soren requested that the High Court rule on his petition contesting his detention by the Enforcement Directorate in the money laundering case

The Supreme Court heard a plea on Friday from former Chief Minister of Jharkhand Hemant Soren, who was challenging his detention by the Enforcement Directorate in a money laundering case. He sought a directive to the high court to give a ruling. After the high court upheld Hemant Soren’s arrest in its ruling on May 3, the plea became null and void.

A panel of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta informed senior attorneys Kapil Sibal and Arunabh Chowdhury, who were representing Hemant Soren, that “this has become infructuous.”

The top court is set to hear the case on May 13 after the JMM leader successfully contested the high court judgment.

In order to continue campaigning in the Lok Sabha elections until the high court rules on his appeal against his arrest, Hemant Soren has also requested temporary bail. On May 13, Kapil Sibal stated that the Supreme Court would consider both that argument and the appeal contesting the high court ruling.

“Ignore the fact that he was the chief minister once. As a citizen, I (Soren) have a right to have the top court handle matters honestly,” Sibal declared.

In a different petition, you have contested the ruling of the high court. You quarrel there,” the bench stated as it rejected his request.

The arrest of Hemant Soren :-

On January 31 of this year, Hemant Soren was taken into custody in connection with a land scam including money laundering. He resigned as Jharkhand’s chief minister upon his incarceration, and his ally Champai Soren was named the new leader.

In order to obtain enormous tracts of land valued in crores, the Enforcement Directorate is reportedly displaying “huge amounts of proceeds of crime generated by manipulation of official records by showing dummy sellers and purchasers in the guise of forged/bogus documents.”

Hemant Soren described in his plea a trend that he claimed was evident in the ED’s targeting and prosecution of people, particularly opposition political figures, based on “cooked-up allegations.”

Soren claimed in his petition that the ED had behaved dishonestly in an attempt to immobilize the leaders of the opposing political parties.