S.M. Subramaniam, J.

Two writ petitions are filed for quashing the proceedings issued by the first respondent in respect of the provisional attachment order No.1 of 2013 in File No. ECIR No. 03/2012 AVB dated 12.4.2012 and the consequential notice issued by the third respondent in Original Complaint No.178 of 2013 dated 13.3.2013.

2. Wp No.8383 of 2013 is filed by Mrs. Soodamani Dorai, Wife of Rt.Rev.Dr.Manickam Dorai. The writ petitioner in WP No.8384 of 2013 is filed by Rt.Rev.Dr.Manickam Dorai, who is the husband of the writ petitioner Mrs. Soodamani Dorai in WP No.8384 of 2013. Thus, the first writ petition viz., WP No.8383 of 2013 was filed by the wife of the writ petitioner Rt.Rev.Dr.Manickam Dorai in the second writ petition viz., WP No.8384 of 2013.

3. The facts in nutshell to be considered in these writ petitions are that the writ petitioners are husband and wife. The writ petitioner in WP No.8384 of 2013 Rt.Rev.Dr.Manickam Dorai was holding the post of Bishop of CSI Diocese, Coimbatore from 2000 till 8.1.2012. The writ petitioner in WP No.8383 of 2013 Mrs. Soodamani Dorai was a retired Primary and Middle School Teacher. The writ petitioners have two children, namely, one Mrs. Mercy Angela Dorai, an Engineer working in abroad and Dr.Jeremy Bliss was doing Post Graduation in Medical Education at CMC, Vellore.

4. By this time, the second daughter would have completed her Post Graduation Course. Rt.Rev.Dr.Manickam Dorai was officiating as Bishop of CSI Diocese, Coimbatore, one Mr.E.Premkumar lodged a criminal complaint before the CBCID, Coimbatore as against Rt.Rev.Dr.Manickam Dorai for the alleged misuse of Bishopship of CSI Diocese, Coimbatore by helping his relatives etc., during the period between 2005 and 2008.

5. Based on the criminal complaint, the CBCID, Coimbatore registered an FIR in Crime No.1 of 2009 as against Rt.Rev.Dr.Manickam Dorai and thirty others for the alleged offences under Sections 120-B, 409, 468, 471 and 477 of IPC and another FIR in Crime No.5 of 2010 was also registered based on the another complaint lodged by the very same E.Premkumar against Rt.Rev.Dr.Manickam Dorai by the CBCID, Coimbatore. In FIR No.1 of 2009, charge sheet was filed on 3.5.2011 and the same was taken cognizance by the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Coimbatore in C.C.No.158 of 2011. As against the above charge sheet in FIR No.1 of 2009 and C.C.No.158 of 2011, a quash petition under Section 482 Cr.P.C., was preferred in Crl.O.P.No.15098 of 2011 on the file of this Court and the said Criminal Original Petition was subsequently dismissed.

6. During the pendency of the criminal proceedings and charge sheet, the second respondent registered an Enforcement Case Information Report in ECIR No.3 of 2012 dated 12.4.2012 based on the above FIR No.1 of 2009 and the charge sheet stayed by this Court as against the one of the writ petitioners Rt.Rev.Dr.Manickam Dorai for the alleged commission of scheduled offences under Sections 120-B, 420 and 471 of IPC under the PMLA, 2002. Consequent upon the registration of above ECIR, the second respondent vide proceedings dated 14.2.2013 provisionally attached the properties which stand in the name of Mrs. Soodamani Dorai, one of the writ petitioners in Document No.2186 of 2009 dated 27.4.2009, without recording any reasons in writing whether the authority has any reason to believe for attaching the property and as if the provisionally attached property in the possession of Mrs. Soodamani Dorai was purchased out of the alleged proceeds of crime relating to scheduled offences. Thereafter, the third respondent registered an original complaint in O.C.No.178 of 2013 dated 27.2.2013 as against the writ petitioners and consequent upon the registration of the above complaint, issued the impugned show cause notice dated 13.3.2013.

7. It is contended that the property in Document No.2186 of 2009 attached b