J.B. Pardiwala, J.

Since the issues raised in all the captioned petitions are more or less the same, those were heard analogously and are being disposed of by this common judgment and order.

2. For the sake of convenience, the Special Criminal Application No.5002 of 2015 is treated as the lead matter.

3. The petitioner came to be arrested on 23rd May, 2015 by the respondent No.2 under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 (for short the PMLA) in connection with the ECIR/03/AMZO/2015 registered as the PMLA Complaint No.8 of 2015 for the offence punishable under sections 3 and 4 of the Act, 2002. It is the case of the petitioner that a first information report being I-C.R. No.85 of 2015 came to be registered with the Kishanwadi Police Station for the offence punishable under sections 418, 419, 420, 465, 467, 468, 471 and 120B of the Indian Penal Code against four persons, namely, (i) Girish Parshottam Patel @ Tommy Patel (ii) Kirankumar Jayantilal