Hemant Soren Released From Ranchi’s Birsa Munda Jail

Former Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren was released from Birsa Munda Jail, Ranchi yesterday after the high court granted bail to him in a money laundering case linked to a land scam.  A single bench of Justice Rongon Mukhopadhyay granted regular bail to the former Chief Minister of Jharkhand earlier in the day.

Hemant Soren was arrested by the Enforcement



Directorate on January 31 this year in a money laundering case related to illegal possession of 8.36 acres of land.

 

Talking to reporters after release from jail  Former Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren said that he was falsely implicated in a money laundering case and was forced to spend about five months in jail.