SUPREME COURT on Friday refused to interfere with the proceedings before Jharkhand High Court in a PIL seeking probe against Chief Minister Hemant Soren over allegations of irregularities in allotting mining leases and money laundering.
A vacation bench of Justices J K Maheshwari and Hima Kohli was of the view that it would not want to examine the matter piecemeal and that the High Court should decide it first.
Subsequently, at the request of Senior Advocate Mukul Rohatgi, who appeared for the state, it agreed to list the plea challenging the High Court order holding the petition as maintainable, for hearing when the apex court reopens after summer recess.
