Why is Supreme Court not applying its Kejriwal bail principle to Hemant Soren?
The same bench of the court that granted bail to Kejriwal to campaign for elections earlier this month has ignored the question of interim bail in Soren’s case.
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday disregarded the plea of former Jharkhand chief minister and the working president of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha party Hemant Soren to be granted interim bail. Instead, it posted the matter for further hearing on Wednesday.
Soren, who had been arrested by the Enforcement Directorate on January 31 for allegedly laundering money after a land grabbing case, was seeking interim bail in order to campaign for his party for the Lok Sabha elections. His lawyer Kapil Sibal has sought to rely on the precedent of the Supreme Court granting nterim bail to Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party national convenor Arvind Kejriwal in a money laundering case on May 10.
Though it is notoriously difficult to get bail in money laundering case, in a first-of-its-kind verdict, the court allowed Kejriwal temporary bail only to campaign for the Lok Sabha election.
The court’s refusal to apply the standard it created less than two weeks ago in Kejriwal’s bail order to a similar set of circumstances in Soren’s case has puzzled observers and legal experts.
Soren’s case
Soon after his arrest earlier this year for his involvement in an alleged land grabbing case, Soren had moved the Supreme Court challenging his arrest.
However, a three judge bench of the court comprising Justices...
