ED issues fresh summons to Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren in money laundering case

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The fresh summons comes days after a team of ED questioned the Jharkhand chief minister in connection with the Ranchi land scam case..

ED sources had said the team conducted a comprehensive but amicable interrogation of the CM, including questions about an allegedly "illegal transaction of a plot of land measuring 8.5 acres in the Bariyatu area of the city"...

After the Saturday questioning of the chief minister, TOI had learnt from sources that the agency could decide on questioning Soren further...

Soren, 48, who is also the executive president of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM), had earlier skipped seven summonses of the ED, and gave his nod for questioning when the eighth summons was sent...

Amid the ongoing ED probe, the Jharkhand chief minister has alleged that the BJP, after failing to compete politically, has been "conspiring behind the curtains to uproot his government"...

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