HC to hear DA cases against Sorens separately
PTI | 07:01 PM,Jan 24,2012Ranchi, Jan 24 (PTI) Jharkhand High Court today rejected a petition seeking to tag cases of disproportionate assets cases against Deputy Chief Minister Hemant Soren and his father JMM president Shibu Soren along with ex-CM Madhu Koda and other ex-ministers to hear them simultaneously. Dismissing the petition filed by social activist Durga Oraon, the division bench of Chief Justice Prakash Chandra Tatia and Justice Apresh Kumar Singh observed that it was not appropriate to tag the two sets of DA cases as hearing of cases against Koda and others were in advance state. The court said it would hear DA cases against the Sorens separately. The court has been hearing DA cases against Koda, former ministers Kamlesh Singh, Enos Ekka, Harinarayan Rai and Bhanu Pratap Sahi after Oraon had filed a PIL in 2008 accusing them of amassing wealth disproportionate to their known sources of income during their ministerial terms between 2005 and 2008. Koda, Singh, Rai and Ekka are in judicial custody after their arrest in 2008, while Sahi surrendered before a court last year in connection with a medical scam.
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