ORDER :

Both these Petitions are being disposed of by this common order, as they arise out of the same FIR and involve similar questions of fact and law.

2. Petitioners Pawan Kumar (Cr.MP(M) No.484 of 2022) and Sanjeev Kumar (Cr.MP(M) No.555 of 2022) have filed the present Petitions, under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (hereinafter referred to as ‘Cr.P.C.’), for grant of bail, in case FIR No.73 of 2022, dated 27.2.2022, registered under Sections 420, 120B of the Indian Penal Code (hereinafter referred to as ‘IPC’) and 5, 6 of the Prize and Money Circulation Schemes (Banking) Act, 1978, in Police Station Balh, District Mandi, Himachal Pradesh.

3. Status Report stands filed and placed on the file of Cr.MP(M) No.484/2022. Record has also been produced.

4. Prosecution case is that on 27.2.2022, complainant Manoj Kumar submitted a complaint in Police Station Balh, stating therein that in August 2020 his friend Pawan Sankhyan had introduced him with a person Sushil Jaryal, and Sushil Jaryal had stated that with a Plan in Crypto Currency an US Company ONYX Trading was there which had its browser registered as OFS Trading.com. Thereafter, he had demonstrated in his Mobile Phone