FINAL ORDER

03.02.2026

Two appeals have been preferred by Sukhminder Singh Sodhi to challenge two separate orders passed by the Adjudicating Authority confirming provisional attachment of the properties. The first order was passed on 25.05.2022 to confirm the provisional attachment order dated 03.09.2021 wherein an immovable property was provisionally attached. Another order was passed on 18.08.2022 to provisionally attach the bank accounts in the name of appellant Sukhminder Singh Sodhi and accordingly two separate appeals have been preferred.

2. It is a case where on a specific intelligence information regarding operation of large scale hawala racket in online international cricket betting through UK based website “betfair.com” by one Sh. Girish Purroshottam Patel alias Tommy Patel and his associate Krishan Jayanti Lal Mala, the proceedings were initiated and accordingly a search operation was conducted under section 37 of Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999 on 19.3.2015 in the premises identified as farmhouse in village, Sikandarpur, Vadodra.

3. During the course of initial investigation under the Act of 1999, hawala payments relating to cricket betting were revealed. The informat