JUDGMENT :

Jay Sengupta, J.:

1. These are applications under Sections 397/401 read with Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, inter alia, praying for setting aside the impugned order dated 19.09.2018 passed by the learned Judge, Special (CBI) Court No. 1, Bichar Bhawan Calcutta in M.L. Case No. 02 of 2007 under Section 45 read with Section 3 and Section 4 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 (State versus Gopinath Das and Ors.) and the impugned order dated 19.09.2018 passed by the said Court in ML Case No. 1 of 2007 under similar provisions, respectively, wherein the petitioner’s applications for discharge from the said cases were rejected. As common facts and questions of law were involved, the two revisions were taken up for hearing together.

2. Mr. A. Bhattacharyya, learned counsel for the petitioner, submitted as follows. The genesis of the present case were the two letters of complaint lodged with the CBI, by the officials of the State Bank of India and the Oriental Bank of Commerce dated 23.05.2006 and 09.06.2006, respectively. It was alleged in the said letters of complaint that one Mr. Gopinath Das, the proprietor of M/s Hindustan International had allegedl