Like Kejriwal, SC rejected the petition granting bail to Hemant Soren for campaigning, said- you hid the facts.

The Supreme Court on May 22 rejected the interim bail plea of former Jharkhand Chief Minister saying that the petitioner has not disclosed the fact that the trial court has taken cognizance of the charge sheet in the case. Senior advocate Kapil Sibal, representing Hemant Soren, said that he withdraws the petition seeking interim bail. He had also approached the apex court seeking interim bail to campaign for votes in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. Voting is to be held in Jharkhand on 20 May, 25 May and 1 June. In the last hearing, a vacation bench of Justices Dipankar Datta and Satish Chandra Sharma said Mr Soren’s case required “thorough debate” even to quash his arrest, leave alone interim bail. Separating his case from that of Mr Kejriwal, the bench pointed out that a trial court in Jharkhand had earlier taken cognizance of money laundering charges against Mr Soren on the basis of prima facie incriminating evidence and had also refused to grant him bail on May 3. The special court has already applied its judicial mind to the evidence against you [Soren] and has found them satisfactory. Can a writ court intervene now? Soren was arrested on January 31, soon after resigning as Jharkhand chief minister and naming party loyalist and state transport minister Champai Soren as his successor. Earlier on May 20, the ED had opposed Mr Soren’s bail plea, claiming he was “actively attempting to sabotage the investigation in the money laundering case against him by misusing the state machinery.