After high drama over 'untraceable' Hemant Soren, ED likely to question him today

The Enforcement Directorate is likely to question Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Wednesday in a money laundering probe connected to an alleged land scam.

The questioning will come after couple of days of high drama with the probe agency saying that Soren was 'untraceable'.

The chief minister had gone to Delhi on January 27 and his whereabouts were reportedly unclear for nearly 30 hours after that.

Ending suspense over his whereabouts and intense political drama, Hemant Soren reached his official residence in Ranchi on Tuesday and chaired a meeting of his alliance MLAs.

On Monday, an ED team visited the JMM executive president's Delhi home with the intent to question him. According to reports, ED seized Rs 36 lakh, a BMW SUV and some "incriminating" documents during the search operations.

In an email to the probe agency on Sunday, Soren alleged that the ED’s actions were "motivated by political agenda" to disrupt the state government's functioning and claimed that its insistence to record his statement again on or before January 31 "reeked of malice".

"Preserve video recording of seven-hour questioning (of January 20) to make available to the court of law," Soren said in the email. He also agreed to record his statement in Ranchi on January 31.

The federal agency questioned Soren on January 20, and later issued a fresh summons, asking him to confirm his availability for questioning on either January 29 or January 31.

with PTI inputs

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