RANCHI: In a major relief to Chief Minister Hemant Soren, the Jharkhand High Court on Wednesday dismissed a PIL filed against him and his family members for the alleged allocation of a mining lease in their names, saying that the petition is a repetition of an earlier one filed by petitioner Shiv Shankar Sharma which has already been rejected by the Supreme Court.
In his petition, RTI activist and advocate Sunil Mahto informed the court that while being the Minister of Mines Department, Soren allotted a mining lease to himself on 88 decimal land in Angada. At the same time, 11 acres of land were allotted in the name of Hemant Soren’s wife Kalpana Soren and her sister Sarla Murmu’s company Sohrai Livestock Private Limited in the Barhe industrial area of Chanho at Barhe industrial area in Chanho area of Ranchi, he added.
