JUDGMENT :

S.K. SAHOO, J.

The petitioner Prasan Kumar Patra has approached this Court for the third time seeking for bail under section 439 of Code of Criminal Procedure in connection with E.O.W., Odisha, Bhubaneswar P.S. Case No.17 of 2018 corresponding to C.T. Case No.14 of 2018 pending on the file of Presiding Officer, Designated Court, O.P.I.D. Act, Cuttack for offences punishable under sections 467, 468, 471, 420, 406 read with section 120-B of the Indian Penal Code and section 6 of the Odisha Protection of Interests of Depositors (in Financial Establishments) Act, 2011 (hereafter ‘O.P.I.D. Act’).

2. On 30.07.2018 one Manoranjan Mishra of Kanan Vihar, Phase-II, P.S.- Chandrasekharpur, Bhubaneswar lodged the first information report before the Superintendent of Police, E.O.W., Odisha, Bhubaneswar alleging therein that during November 2012 after going through the advertisement of M/s. Z-Infra Construction Pvt. Ltd. (hereafter ‘the company’) about availability of plots under Jatani Tahasil near IIT relatively at a lower price in the Pragyan Vihar Project, he contacted the petitioner who was the Managing Director of the company at his office located at IRC Village, Nayapalli to purch