As word began to spread about the fortune that the MPs had landed, many in their camp began to bargain for their share. Among them was Shashi Nath Jha, private secretary to JMM chief Shibu Soren. By the next summer, Jha had disappeared. After years of investigation, CBI exhumed his remains from a village near Ranchi in 1998 and accused Shibu Soren, among others, of murdering Jha.
