ORDER :

1. By the present application filed Section 439 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (hereinafter referred to as “Cr.P.C.”) and Section 65 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 (hereinafter referred to as PMLA, 2002”), the applicant is praying for grant of regular bail in connection with ECIR bearing ECIR/NGSZO/13/21 registered by Directorate of Enforcement, Sub-Zonal Office, Nagpur for offence under Section 3 and punishable under Section 4 of the PMLA, 2002 (hereinafter referred to as “ECIR”).

Brief and relevant facts are as under:

2. An offence was registered at Kuntur Police Station, Nanded under Section 420, 406, 467, 468, 471, 477-A and 120B of Indian Penal Code (hereinafter referred to as “IPC) vide Crime No. 109/2018, dated 19/07/2018 against the present applicant and 18 others, on a report of Assistant Police Inspector, Nanded Police, who had received secrete information that essential commodities of Wheat and Rice is being illegally transported from the godown of Food Corporation of India (FCI) Jawahar Nagar, Tuppa to the company Baheti Group, M/s. In