Ranchi, January 19: Amid protests, federal agency Enforcement Directorate wrote to the chief secretary (L Khiangte), director general of police (Ajay Kumar Singh) and the Ranchi senior superintendent of police to ensure security and maintain law and order when ED officials visit the CM’s residence to question him on Saturday, an official said.
The investigation pertains to a “huge racket of illegal change of ownership of land by the mafia” in Jharkhand, according to the ED.
The agency has so far arrested 14 people in the case, including 2011-batch IAS officer Chhavi Ranjan who has served as the director of the state Social Welfare Department and deputy commissioner of Ranchi.
Soren had filed a petition before the Supreme Court and then the Jharkhand High Court, seeking protection from the ED action and terming the summonses “unwarranted”. Both courts dismissed his petitions.
JMM and tribal organisations have expressed anger over the repeated summons of ED to Hemant Soren and alleged that they were harassing a tribal chief minister at the behest of BJP-led Centre.
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