CBI court summons CM in 2014 case

Ranchi: A special CBI court has issued a summons to chief minister Hemant Soren on Wednesday in connection with the 2014 divorce case of national-level shooter Tara Shahdeo and Rakibul Hassan alias Ranjit Singh Kohli, court sources said on Thursday. In the case, Sahdeo accused Hassan of marrying her after faking his religious identity and “forcing her to convert”. In his defence petition, Hassan named Soren as one of his witnesses. Soren was then the leader of the opposition. The court has already granted divorce and a hearing is going on for the quantum of punishment.Notably, Shahdeo filed the case with the Hindpiri police station accusing Hassan of marrying her by pretending as Hindu and then forcibly trying to convert her. The CBI took over the case in 2015 and started a probe. The next date of the hearing has been fixed on May 16.