ORDER

By this application under Section 439 of the Cr.P.C., applicant/accused in Special Trial (PMLA) No.07 of 2021 dated 01.11.2021 arising out of ECIR No. PTZO/08/2014 dated 13.05.2014 and ECIR No. PTZO/07/2021 dated 13.09.2021 pending on the file of the learned Special Judge, Patna for the offences punishable under Section 3, punishable under Section 4 and Paragraph 1 of Part “A” of the Schedule to the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 (PLMA for the sake of convenience), is seeking his release on bail during pencendy of the trial.

2. Heard the learned counsel appearing for the applicant/ accused at sufficient length of time. By taking me through the predicate offences leading to the registration of both the ECIR, it is argued that all the three schedule offences/ predicate offences vide FIR Nos. 30 of 2013, 52 of 2013 and 311 of 2011 have ultimately yielded in acquittal of the applicant/accused by the competent criminal court. In fact the applicant is a reputed Builder, who has constructed approximately 300 flats and the commercial dispute ultimately arose in respect of few of those flats which subsequently culminated into registration of the criminal cases due to filing of