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New Delhi:Illegal possession of land parcels through forgery of records and close aides and deployment of front men to form parallel evidence for hiding ownership of these plots are among the Enforcement Directorates broad charges against former Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren...
While the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) leader was arrested 31 January in connection with the alleged ownership of land parcels in Ranchi, the ED filed a charge sheet against Soren and his alleged aides Rajkumar Pahan, Hilariyas Kachhap and Binod Singh and a former revenue sub-inspector, Bhanu Pratap Prasad, on 30 March...
Investigation has established that the above stated 5 accused, Bhanu Pratap Prasad, Hemant Soren, Binod Singh, Rajkumar Pahan and Hilariyas Kachhap, are involved in the illegal acquisition of proceeds of crime in form of a landed property admeasuring 8.86 acres by Hemant Soren, reads the EDs charge sheet naming the JMM leader as an accused...
Sorens media advisor Abhishek Prasad Pintu got the land verification done through his Principal Private Secretary (PPS) Uday Shankar, who ordered circle officer Manoj Kumar and eventually Bhanu Pratap Prasad carried out the verification process and submitted the report, the ED alleged...
The ED alleged that the file seized from Bhanu Pratap Prasads chamber also contained a lease paper executed between Ranjit Singh and Chandrika Pahan, Birsa Pahan and others and the address given by Singh on the deed was exactly the same that Soren gave during questioning...
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