<p> Ranchi: The ruling Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) has called for a nine-hour strike in Sahebganj district on Wednesday, to protest against the ED summons to Chief Minister Hemant Soren in connection with a money laundering case linked to an alleged land scam.</p>.<p>The Sahebganj unit of JMM also took out a torchlight procession on Tuesday from the railway general institute, around 480 km from Jharkhand capital Ranchi, opposing the Enforcement Directorate’s action, a party official said.</p>.<p>The ED had on January 13 sent a letter to the chief minister, asking him to be available for questioning in the case between January 16 and January 20, sources said.</p>.Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren's aide searched by ED in 'illegal' mining case'.<p>In reply, Soren told the ED it can record his statement on January 20.</p>.<p>The investigation pertains to a 'huge racket of illegal change of ownership of land by the mafia' in Jharkhand, according to the ED.</p>.<p>JMM's Sahebganj district president Shahjahan Ansari told PTI that it has called for a nine-hour bandh from 8 am to 5pm.</p>.<p>Emergency services like ambulance, trains and milk vans will be exempted from the purview of the strike, he said. </p>
<p> Ranchi: The ruling Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) has called for a nine-hour strike in Sahebganj district on Wednesday, to protest against the ED summons to Chief Minister Hemant Soren in connection with a money laundering case linked to an alleged land scam.</p>.<p>The Sahebganj unit of JMM also took out a torchlight procession on Tuesday from the railway general institute, around 480 km from Jharkhand capital Ranchi, opposing the Enforcement Directorate’s action, a party official said.</p>.<p>The ED had on January 13 sent a letter to the chief minister, asking him to be available for questioning in the case between January 16 and January 20, sources said.</p>.Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren's aide searched by ED in 'illegal' mining case'.<p>In reply, Soren told the ED it can record his statement on January 20.</p>.<p>The investigation pertains to a 'huge racket of illegal change of ownership of land by the mafia' in Jharkhand, according to the ED.</p>.<p>JMM's Sahebganj district president Shahjahan Ansari told PTI that it has called for a nine-hour bandh from 8 am to 5pm.</p>.<p>Emergency services like ambulance, trains and milk vans will be exempted from the purview of the strike, he said. </p>