VIJAY DEO JHA
Ranchi, June 22: Shiv Shankar Sharma, the petitioner of the PIL against Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren is set to file a caveat before the Supreme Court after the latter filed a Special Leave Petition on Tuesday.
“We would request the Supreme Court to hear me in the matter related to the SLP filed by Chief Minister Hemant Soren,” Sharma informed.
Hemant Soren filed the SLP to challenge the order of Jharkhand High Court by which the court declared that PIL 727/2022 maintainable and the merit of the PIL can be heard now. In the PIL the petitioner has demanded a probe into Chief Minister Hemant Soren obtaining the stone mining lease in his name at Angara whereas he is the chief minister of Jharkhand as well as the minister of the mining department and forest department. The petition termed it as an act of corruption.
Sharma seeks a direction for sanctioning the prosecution of the Chief Minister for obtaining a mining lease in his own name implicating offences under the provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 and the Indian Penal Code.
Notably, on the previous occasion the Jharkhand government had challenged the maintainability of another PIL 4290/2021. In this PIL In the petitioner, Shiv Shankar Sharma seeks a direction for an investigation into the alleged parking of money by the Soren family in certain shell companies. But the Supreme Court declined an urgent hearing.
On Thursday the court of Chief Justice Dr. Ravi Ranjan and Justice Sujit Narayan Prasad of Jharkhand High Court is set to hear both the PILs.
