<span style="color: #222222;">The Supreme Court today directed the Jharkhand High Court to decide first the maintainability of Public Interest Litigations seeking investigation by the Central Bureau of Investigation or Enforcement Directorate against Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren in relation to grant of mining lease, allegations of MNREGA scam and transfer of money into shell companies.<br />''<br />''A vacation bench comprising Justices D. Y. Chandrachud and Bela M. Trivedi passed the order on the petition filed by the State of Jharkhand challenging the decision of the High Court to accept the documents produced by the Enforcement Directorate in sealed cover overruling the State's objections.<br />''<br />''Meanwhile, in the Jharkhand High Court, while hearing the PIL filed in the same case, the bench of Chief Justice Dr Raviranjan and Justice Sujit Narayan Prasad, has fixed 1st of June as the date of hearing on the maintainability of the case. The petitioner's Advocate Rajiv Kumar told that the court has asked both the parties to respond positively by 31st of May. He informed that the<br />''Special Leave Petition filed by the State Government today has been rejected in the apex court.</span>