NEW DELHI: Supreme Court docket Wednesday stayed proceedings within the ED case towards Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren for disregarding repeated summons in relation to an alleged land amassment case and in respect of properties owned, possessed and occupied by him.A bench of CJI Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul M Pancholi issued discover to ED and requested the company to file its response in 4 weeks. It permitted Soren to file a rejoinder three weeks thereafter.Showing for Soren, senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi mentioned this was a case of gross abuse of energy by ED which had issued summons after summons although the CM had appeared earlier than it thrice and responded to the questions posed to him. “It’s nothing however a case motivated by political vindictiveness,” Rohatgi mentioned.Extra solicitor normal Anil Kaushik mentioned the CM had intentionally and wilfully disregarded the summons with a view to hindering progress within the investigation. However the bench mentioned if ED wished to prosecute “in terrorem” (as a way to frighten), it had achieved its function.“We got here to know from newspaper studies that you simply (ED) have filed bulk complaints. You think about that,” the bench mentioned. Soren in his petition mentioned “central companies have been concentrating on the undersigned (him) for over a 12 months now solely as a result of the undersigned will not be aligned with the political celebration which is in energy on the Centre”.HC had dismissed Soren’s petition searching for quashing of prison proceedings initiated by ED and the order of the Ranchi Justice of the Peace taking cognizance of the ED case accusing him of deliberate defiance of repeated summonses for his look earlier than the company for questioning.In his enchantment towards the HC order, Soren mentioned, “Your entire criticism filed by ED is misconceived, frivolous and vexatious, and has been filed with an ulterior goal to harass, humiliate and browbeat the petitioner. It’s trite that prison proceedings and the method of prison courtroom ought to not be permitted to be utilised as a instrument for harassment and to wreak vengeance, extra so by a central regulation enforcement company.”