ORDER :

1. This is second bail application filed under Section 439 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 for grant of regular bail to the applicant, who has been arrested on 13.10.2022 in connection with Crime No. ECIR/RPZO/09/2022 dated 29.09.2022 registered at Police Station-Directorate of Enforcement, Zonal Office, Raipur (C.G.) for the offence punishable under Sections 3 & 4 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 (for short “the PMLA, 2002”).

2. The case of the prosecution, in brief, is that on 12.07.2022, FIR No. 129/2022 was registered by Kadugodi Police Station, Whitefield, Bengaluru under Sections 186, 204, 353 & 120B of IPC against one Suryakant Tiwari & other persons on the basis of complaint filed by Deputy Director of Income Tax, Foreign Assets Investigation Unit-I Bengaluru alleging that as part of conspiracy, during course of search by Income Tax department on 30.06.2022, Suryakant Tiwari had obstructed the officials from carrying their official duties and destroyed crucial incriminating documents and digital evidence about the alleged illegal extortion on Coal Transportation, payments collected by Suryakant Tiwari and his associates.

3. It is also case of the