( 1 ) THIS petition has been filed under Section 439 of the Criminal Procedure Code for grant of bail to the petitioner Lambert Kroger, a German National, who is an accused in FIR No. 219/99 registered at Police Station Chitranjan Park under Sections 120b/420/409 of the Indian Penal Code read with Sections 3,4 and 5 of the Prize Chits and Money Circulation Scheme (Banning) Act, 1978. The said FIR was registered on the basis of the complaint of one Shri Lakshmi Chand Gupta. Since the petitioner had already been arrested by the officials of the Enforcement Directorate on 8. 7. 1999 for the provisons under FERA, 1973 violations and had been in judicial custody he was arrested in this case on 26. 7. 1999 through production warrants and was remanded to police custody for three days and thereafter he continued to be in judicial custody.

( 2 ) ACCORDING to the complaint filed by Shri Lakshmi Chand Gupta and the FIR registered on the basis of the said complaint, the complainant is doing business of Motor Workshop. In the first week of May, 1999 one of his acquaintenances Shri Ravinder Nath Puri informed him that Maple Leaf Trading International Private Limited has floated a sc