On Friday, the Jharkhand High Court granted bail to former chief minister Hemant Soren in an investigation into money laundering connected to illegal land possession of 8.36 acres.
Soren was arrested on January 31 and was placed under ED remand by a local court on February 2. The case is based on the arrest of one Bhanu Pratap Prasad — a land revenue inspector in Badhgaain in 2023 who is suspected of being part of a land-grab syndicate that falsified original land records.
Several original land records were recovered from Prasad. His phone contained an image of an 8.36-acre parcel of land that was alleged to be in Soren’s illegal possession.
