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Prayer
1. The writ petition has been filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India in the nature of Public Interest Litigation seeking therein following reliefs :-
2025:JHHC:19765-DB a. Issue a writ, order or direction constituting a Special Investigation Team (SIT) headed by a retired judge of this Hon'ble Court and comprising of a Superintendent of Police (SP) rank officer each from the Income Tax Department (ITD), Directorate of Enforcement (ED), Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), and Jharkhand Police to investigate into the various allegations of disproportionate assets beyond known sources of income, corruption and various illegal activities against Shri Dhullu Mahto (Hon'ble Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha, Dhanbad) in a time bound manner.
f. Pass any other appropriate writ(s), order(s) or direction(s) as your Lordships may deem fit and proper in the facts and circumstances of the present case.
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2. The brief facts of the case as per the pleading made in the writ petition, which are required to be enumerated, read as under:-
2025:JHHC:19765-DB It is the case of the petitioner that this petitioner had approached this Court by way of a Public Interest Litigation being W.P.(PIL) No. 6438 of 2011 seeking investigation into, inter alia, the disproportionate assets beyond the known sources of income of Shri Dhullu Mahto.
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17. The credential has also been filed by way of supplementary affidavit on 16.12.2024.
18. It appears from the allegation as has been stated in the pleading in the instant Public Interest Litigation that Shri Dhullu Mahto, a sitting Member of Parliament from Dhanbad in the State of Jharkhand, that he has amassed huge property beyond the known sources of income.
19. The present petitioner, however, has approached this Court also by filing one writ petition in the nature of Public Interest Litigation being W.P.(PIL) No.6438 of 2011 seeking investigation into the disproportionate asset beyond the known source of income of said Shri Dhullu Mahto.