Special Court extends Hemant Soren's ED remand by 3 days

Former Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren's ED remand has been extended by a special PMLA court here on Monday in a money laundering case associated with the land scam, the lawyers informed. ED asked for four days of remand of the JMM leader.  

 

"They (ED) were asking for a four-day remand...They have no ground left for any further remand. They (ED) just want to buy time...They didn't have any new ground. They just want the case to be alive and stretch the remand period," Advocate General Rajeev Ranjan, Soren's counsel, told reporters. 

 

Soren, the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha executive president, was on February 7 remanded to five days of ED custody by the special PMLA (the Prevention of Money Laundering Act) court.

 

On February 2, the court granted 5 days of ED custody to Soren.

 

Rajan, Soren's counsel, said, "We objected to the ED's request because no further remand is required".

 

He had on February 7, said that the central agency had already interrogated Soren for 120 hours.

 

Soren on reaching the PMLA court, waved at his supporters, who raised slogans such as 'Hemant Soren Zindabad'.

 

He was arrested on January 31 after a seven-hour grilling by the central agency in the money laundering case. He resigned as the chief minister before that.