The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Jharkhand High Court to first hear preliminary objections on the maintainability of a public interest litigation seeking probe against Chief Minister Hemant Soren for alleged irregularities in the grant of mining leases.
The vacation bench of Justices DY Chandrachud and Bela M Trivedi noted that the High Court had itself in its order of May 13 said it would first decide the maintainability of the PIL filed by one Shiv Kumar Sharma and then it will go into the merit of the allegations levelled in the petition.
“We are of the considered view that the high court would first deal with the preliminary objections on the maintainability of the writ petition and based on the outcome it would then proceed further in accordance with law,” said the apex court.