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  • Hemant Soren challenges ED summons in Jharkhand High Court

    Hemant Soren:- Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Saturday filed a petition in the Jharkhand High Court challenging the summons sent to him by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in an alleged money laundering case. His lawyer gave this information. On September 18, the Supreme Court had refused to consider Soren’s plea against the summons issued by the ED in an alleged money laundering case. A bench of Justices Aniruddha Bose and Bela M Trivedi had given liberty to Soren to approach the Jharkhand High Court for relief in the case. Soren’s lawyer Piyush Chitresh said that the Chief Minister has filed a petition in the High Court challenging the summons issued to him by the ED. The ED had summoned Soren to appear at the federal agency’s office in Ranchi on August 14 and record his statement under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.

    Soren had also not appeared when called by the ED in the alleged defense land scam case citing pre-scheduled programmes. The ED had questioned Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) leader Soren (48) for over nine hours on November 17 last year in a money laundering case related to alleged illegal mining in the state. The central agency is probing over a dozen land deals, including one related to defense land, in which a group of mafia, middlemen and bureaucrats allegedly colluded to create fake documents dating back to 1932. Was.

    The ED has so far arrested several people in Jharkhand, including Soren’s political aide Pankaj Mishra. Soren was initially summoned by the ED on November 3, 2022, but he did not appear citing government commitments. The JMM leader had also challenged the Central Investigation Agency to arrest him and requested to postpone the summons for three weeks. The ruling JMM has alleged that the chief minister was being politically targeted while the Bharatiya Janata Party had last week said Soren should not be tried by any court given the “kind of corruption” he has done in the state. There will be no relief and they will ultimately have to face an Enforcement Directorate investigation. (Language)

  • Arvind Kejriwal Likely To Appear Before Delhi Court Today After Trust Vote Move |

    Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is likely to appear before a court in connection with the summons issued by the Enforcement Directorate in the alleged Excise scam case. Delhi CM Kejriwal has already skipped five summons in the case following which the ED approached a city court against him. Kejriwal, who is also the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Chief, is expected to present himself before a Delhi court to clarify his stand to skip the ED summons. 

    This comes amid the Delhi Assembly’s move to adopt the motion of confidence moved by the Chief Minister in a show of strength amid allegations that the BJP is trying to poach AAP MLAs by offering them Rs 25 crores each.

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    Speaking after presenting the motion of confidence in the Delhi Assembly yesterday, CM Kejriwal stated that two AAP MLAs informed him of BJP members approaching them, claiming that the Delhi chief minister would soon be arrested and these MLAs were offered Rs 25 crore to join the BJP. Kejriwal said that he brought the trust vote in the assembly to prove none of the AAP MLAs had defected.

    मेरे पास 2 MLA आये और उन्होंने बताया:

    BJP ने उन्हें कहा है कि आपके मुख्यमंत्री को हम कुछ दिन में गिरफ़्तार कर लेंगे, हमने 21 विधायकों से बात कर ली है

    उन्होंने 25-25 Crore का ऑफर दिया है और कहा है कि उन्हें अपनी पार्टी से चुनाव भी लड़वा देंगे

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    — AAP (@AamAadmiParty) February 16, 2024

    This move by Kejriwal comes ahead of the ED’s sixth summons scheduled for February 19. This marks the second occasion where the Arvind Kejriwal government seeks a trust vote. The Aam Aadmi Party holds 62 MLAs in the 70-member Assembly, while the BJP has eight.

    Last week, the court summoned Kejriwal, emphasizing his legal obligation to comply. The ED has accused the Delhi chief minister of intentionally avoiding summons, with the AAP claiming that the summonses were illegal, and the agency’s objective is to arrest Kejriwal and make the Delhi government collapse by unfair means. The AAP leaders claimed that the BJP is deploying different techniques to gain power in Delhi as they cannot win against the Aam Aadmi Party in the national capital.

    The ongoing investigation involves allegations of liquor companies influencing the excise policy for a 12% profit, with the Enforcement Directorate alleging money laundering related to kickbacks. The BJP contends that AAP used the alleged scam proceeds to fund its Gujarat campaign, establishing itself as a national party.

  • Congress protest march in make stronger of corruption: BJP 

    By way of PTI

    NEW DELHI:  The BJP on Monday criticised the protest march of the Congress in opposition to the ED summons to its chief Rahul Gandhi within the Nationwide Usher in case, announcing contributors of the opposition birthday party have hit the streets in make stronger of corruption and to allegedly offer protection to over Rs 2,000 crore property of the Gandhi circle of relatives.

    Addressing a press convention, BJP chief and Union Minister Smriti Irani mentioned the display of energy via the Congress is geared toward placing power at the probe company, and asserted that no person is above the legislation “even Rahul Gandhi”.

    Congress contributors must additionally ask Rahul Gandhi about his circle of relatives’s members of the family with Dotex Products, which she described as a hawala operator whose transactions were flagged via the Monetary Intelligence Unit.

    The BJP chief alleged that the Gandhi circle of relatives floated Younger Indian to clutch the property value over Rs 2,000 crore of Related Journals Restricted, which publishes the Nationwide Usher in newspaper.

    By no means earlier than this sort of blatant strive was once made via a political circle of relatives to carry a probe company to ransom, she mentioned. Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Monday gave the impression earlier than the ED right here for wondering within the Nationwide Usher in money-laundering investigation.