Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Saturday accused the ruling BJP of humiliating the judiciary and hoped that Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who was in judicial custody in the excise policy case, would come out of Jail soon. The chief minister was talking to reporters after meeting Congress leader Sonia Gandhi at her residence, 10 Janpath, in Delhi. "I hadn't met Sonia Gandhi after coming out of jail; that is why I came to meet her.
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Indians are very tolerant and cooperative. They tolerate a lot until they cannot and then they make themselves heard by voting. The BJP has humiliated the judiciary.
I hope Arvind Kejriwal will be granted bail soon," Soren said. Kejriwal got interim bail from the Supreme Court on Friday in money laundering charges linked to the excise policy case. But he could not come out of jail as he was separately arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) under the Prevention of Corruption Act in connection with the same case on June 25.
He is under remand till July 25 in the CBI case. Hemant Soren was released from the Birsa Munda Jail on June 28 after nearly five months following bail from Jharkhand High Court in a money laundering case linked to an alleged land scam. On July 8, days after he was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Jharkhand for the third time, Soren won the floor test during a special session of the state assembly.
Hemant Soren won the vote of trust wi.
