Ranchi, September 06: The CBI today produced before the Jharkhand High Court, Durga Oraon, on whose PIL the court had ordered a probe into the alleged disproportionate assets of former chief minister Mahdu Koda and his cabinet colleagues.
The court had asked the CBI to find the whereabouts of Oraon after the state police failed to trace him.
Oraon informed the bench of Chief Justice Bhagwati Prasad that he was the petitioner and his counsel Ritu Kumar identified him.
The bench directed the government to provide proper security to Oraon.
Jharkhand DGP Neyaz Ahmed on August 31 personally appeared before the court to say that Oraon’s name was not found in the voters’ list in neither Simdega nor Ranchi and all police stations were informed to locate him.
–Agencies