Express News Service
RANCHI: Hearing of the petitions, pertaining to shell companies, mining lease allotted to CM Hemant Soren and MGNREGA scam, was deferred till May 24 at Jharkhand High Court after State Government sought time saying that it has filed a Special Leave Petition (SLP) in Supreme Court which is likely to be heard on Friday.
The Court, however, said that after the perusal of the report submitted by the Enforcement Directorate (ED), it has come to the conclusion that this is a matter of public interest, and hence, if any specific direction is not passed by the Apex Court on Friday in this regard, it will be ensured that hearing gets completed and an order is passed on Tuesday itself, which may be challenged further.
The division bench of Chief Justice Ravi Ranjan and Justice SN Prasad said that even though no stay order has been passed by the Supreme Court, following the judicial discipline, it will not pass any order till the matter is heard in the upper court.
“After going thought the sealed report submitted by ED, I hve found it to be a matter of paramount importance and related to public cause and if any specific direction is not passed by the Supreme Court in this regard on Friday, hearing will be completed on all matters and may pass an order on Tuesday, which may be challenged further,” the Court said. The matter will be heard next on Tuesday at 11 AM, it added.
Earlier the State counsel requested the Court to defer the…
