K. NATARAJAN
Vihaan Direct Selling India Private Limited – Appellant
Versus
Assistant Director Directorate of Enforcement – Respondent
ORDER
This writ petition is filed by the petitioner-company under Articles 226 and 227 of the Constitution of India seeking various reliefs of issuing writ of certiorarified mandamus for quashing the FIR in No.ECIR/MBZO-1/15/2013 registered by the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) and also various directions, to quash the search and seizure of the account and to declare the search conducted under Section 17 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act as illegal and unconstitutional and other various reliefs.
2. Heard the arguments of learned Senior counsel appearing for the petitioner counsel and learned Special counsel for the respondents-ED.
3. The case of the prosecution is that the respondent-ED registered a FIR in ECIR/MBZO-1/15/2013 based upon the FIR registered by the Oshiwara Police Station, Mumbai in Crime No.316/2013 for various IPC offences and the offence under Sections 120B and 420 of IPC are the schedule offences under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 (for short ‘PML Act’). Hence, the ED registered a case against the petitioner-company in the above said FIR and during the investigation in the year 2013, the ED said to be conducted the search and freezed th
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