The Jharkhand High Court on Friday vacated the stay imposed on the execution of the process of attachment of property of JMM MlA Sita Soren, an accused in the horse-trading case during the Rajya Sabha elections - 2012.
Soren had moved the high court challenging the lower court’s order of attachment of property issued against her under Section 83 of IPC after she failed to submit to the process of law. The court or Justice RR Prasad refused to extend the interim order earlier passed by it staying the property attachment process in the case,” said Soren’s counsel Indrajeet Sinha.
A non-bailable warrant was issued against the ruling JMM's MlA Sita Soren on August 5 last year by a special CBI court in relation to the horse trading scam leading to countermanding the 2012 Rajya Sabha elections and conducting it afresh after scrapping the original notification. The warrant of arrest was issued after the court of RK Chaudhary rejected the legislator's anticipatory bail on July 29 last year.
Jharkhand High Court on April 18 last year had rejected her anticipatory bail. Chargesheet in the case has already been filed against the MlA and her father, B Majhi, independent candidates in the scrapped 2012 RS elections RK Agarwal and Pawan Kumar Dhoot and one Sunil Maheswari. The Election Commission of India had countermanded the March 30, 2012 Rajya Sabha elections for two seats after Rs 2.15 crore cash was found on the polling day on the outskirts of Ranchi in a car allegedly belonging to the relative of an Independent candidate.