Ranchi, June 13 (HS). The court of PMLA Special Judge Rajiv Ranjan on Thursday took cognizance of the ED's charge sheet against ten accused in the land scam and money laundering case related to former Chief Minister Hemant Soren. This charge sheet was filed by the ED in the court on June 7. The court will hear this case on June 27.
The accused against whom ED has filed a chargesheet in the land scam and money laundering case related to former Chief Minister Hemant Soren include JMM leader Antu Tirkey, Revenue Department employee Manoj Kumar Yadav, two employees of Registrar of Assurance, Kolkata, Tapas Ghosh, Sanjit Kumar, Deed Writer in Hazaribagh Court, Md. Irshad, besides Priya Ranjan Sahay, Vipin Singh, Irshad Akhtar, Afsar Ali alias Afsu Khan and Saddam Hussain. ED has also mentioned in its chargesheet that fake documents were made for two plots of 8.86 acres of land in possession of Hemant Soren in Bargain. This has also been confirmed in the forensic report. Apart from this, Afsar Khan, Priyaranjan Sahay, Vipin Singh and other accused collected the documents in connivance with Kolkata Registrar of Insurance employees Tapas Ghosh and Sanjit Kumar. Then, with the help of Hazaribagh's deed writer Mohammad Irshad, they prepared fake documents and hatched a conspiracy to grab 4.83 acres of land located at Cheshire Home Road.
So far, five people including former Chief Minister Hemant Soren and Bhanu Pratap Prasad have been made accused in this case. So far, 11 people have been arrested in this case.