Emta Coal Limited vs Deputy Director Directorate of Enforcement

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2023 Supreme(Del) 2266

PRATHIBA M. SINGH
Emta Coal Limited – Appellant
Versus
Deputy Director Directorate of Enforcement – Respondent

Advocates appeared:
Abhimanyu Bhandari, Ms. Kartika Sharma & Ms. Vanshita Gupta, Advocates, for the Petitioner in W.P.(C) 3821 of 2022 and CM Appl. 11325 of 2022, 37473 of 2022 with W.P.(C) 12437 of 2022 and CM Appl. 37384 of 2022.
Anupam S. Sharma, Special Counsel - ED with Ms. Harpreet Kalsi, Prakarsh Airan, Abhishek Batra and Ripudaman Sharma, Advocates, for the Respondent in W.P.(C) 3821 of 2022 and CM Appl. 11325 of 2022, 37473 of 2022 with W.P.(C) 12437 of 2022 and CM Appl. 37384 of 2022 & W.P.(C) 14530/2022 and CM APPL. 44427/2022.
Siddharth Aggarwal, Senior Advocate with Krishna Datta Multani, Parangat Pandey, Ms. Arshiya Ghosh & Shaunak Dutta, Advocates, for the Petitioner in W.P.(C) 14530/2022 and CM APPL. 44427/2022.

JUDGMENT

Prathiba M. Singh, J. (Oral)--This hearing has been done through hybrid mode.

2. At the outset, ld. Counsels for the parties unanimously state that there is no conflict in this Bench hearing these writ petitions.

3. These are three writ petitions challenging provisional attachment orders being 01/KLZ0-I/2022 dated 14th February, 2022, 17/KLZO-I/2022 dated 20th June, 2022, issued by the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) under section 5 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 (hereinafter `PMLA') and all consequent proceedings arising therefrom against the following Petitioners:

Writ Petition Number	Petitioners
W.P.(C) 3821/2022 & W.P.(C) 12437/2022	M/s Emta Coal Limited Shri Ujjal Kumar Upadhaya Mrs. Sangeeta Upadhaya
W.P.(C) 14530/2022	Mr. Sujit Kumar Upadhaya Mr. Dev Jyoti Upadhaya Ms. Neeta Upadhaya Ask Family Trust M/s Midwest Hospital and Medical Institute Pvt. Ltd. M/s Pacific Mines and Construction Pvt. Ltd. M/s Panorama Country Club Resorts Pvt. Ltd. M/s Ujjal Transport Agency

4. The background of the matters is that vide judgment dated 24th September, 2014 passed in Manohar Lal Sharma v. Principal Secretary, & Ors., (2014) 9 SCC 614, the Supreme Court

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2023 Supreme(Del) 2266

PRATHIBA M. SINGHEmta Coal Limited – AppellantVersusDeputy Director Directorate of Enforcement – Respondent

PRATHIBA M. SINGH
Emta Coal Limited – Appellant
Versus
Deputy Director Directorate of Enforcement – Respondent