Jharkhand High Court on Friday directed CBI and the Enforcement Directorate to submit a status report on cases pursued by them against MLAs of the State.
The order was passed by a division bench comprising Chief Justice Anirudhha Bose and Justice HC Mishra in a PIL (WP PIL/157/2015).
Rajiv Kumar, the petitioner’s lawyer, said the court in its order has asked for the number of cases pending before special courts instituted for hearing CBI and the ED cases. Kumar added that during the argument he submitted before court that many cases were pending in court for years. He pointed out that during a hearing in the case earlier the court had observed that such cases should be monitored.
Kumar said Supreme Court has also issued directive for speedy trial of cases against elected representatives.
He pointed out that according to elections affidavit filed in 2014, 56 MLAs out of the 81 members of State Assembly of Jharkhand are facing trial in different courts of the State.