Hearing in the Supreme Court today in the case of investment in shell companies of close friends of Hemant Soren
The government has challenged the High Court order in the Supreme Court.
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The Supreme Court will hear on August 12 (Friday) the Special Leave Petition (SLP) filed by the state government in the case of investment in shell companies of close friends of Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren. A supplementary affidavit has been filed on behalf of the state government. On behalf of the state government, through a supplementary affidavit, the record related to the registration of the case, arrest and court order in Kolkata against the advocate Rajiv Kumar of the respondent (applicant Shiv Shankar Sharma in the public interest litigation) has been brought before the Supreme Court. .
The order of the Jharkhand High Court has been challenged
The Supreme Court will hear on August 12 in the Special Leave Petition (SLP) case filed by the state government in the case of investments in shell companies of close friends of Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren. A supplementary affidavit has been filed on behalf of the state government in this matter. It is noteworthy that the SLP has been filed in the Supreme Court by the Jharkhand government. The government has challenged the order of the Jharkhand High Court.
Hearing in Jharkhand High Court on August 26
The Jharkhand High Court had on June 3, 2022 considered maintainable (acceptable) the PILs filed by the close friends of Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren regarding investment in shell companies and investigation into the mining lease allocation case to Hemant Soren in Anagada. After this, the Jharkhand High Court started hearing on the merit of the petitions filed by the applicant Shiv Shankar Sharma. The next hearing on merit is scheduled for August 26.