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RANCHI: The ED on Tuesday summoned Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren for questioning in an alleged land scam case on August 14, over eight months after quizzing him in an illegal mining case.
Both cases are related to the Prevention of Money Laundering Act. In the land case, an IAS officer, Chhavi Ranjan, was arrested on May 4 this year along with seven others earlier. Government sources confirmed the CM had received the ED summons in the land case, which pertains to allegations about money laundering in illegal sales of 4.5 acres of Army land in Ranchi. Supriyo Bhattacharya, general secretary and spokesman of JMM, called the summons part of BJP’s “continuing conspiracy to misuse central agencies for targeting the CM”. Soren was quizzed in the mining scam on November 17 last year.
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