JUDGMENT :

Mukta Gupta, J.

1. By this petition, the petitioner seeks a writ of mandamus directing the Directorate of Enforcement to withdraw the Look Out Circular (LOC) issued against the petitioner in ECIR No. 02/DLZO/2016.

2. Learned counsel for the petitioner contends that in the seven RCs registered by the CBI against the petitioner’s grandfather, late father and late uncle on the allegations of commission of offences under the IPC and Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 in the year 2012-2013, the petitioner was not made an accused, since admittedly at the time of alleged offence i.e. from the year 2005 to 2011, the petitioner was a minor being 8 to 14 years old and was not involved in the family business. In the ECIR recorded by the Enforcement Directorate against the petitioner’s relatives including his grandmother, the petitioner was never arrayed as an accused nor any complaint has been filed against him. Even in the second ECIR recorded in the year 2016 against the petitioner’s relatives, the petitioner was neither named as an accused nor complaint filed against him. Petitioner pursued his Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University, Indiana, USA from April 2016