2025:CGHC:3612 NAFR HIGH COURT OF CHHATTISGARH AT BILASPUR ORDER RESERVED ON 13.12.2024 ORDER DELIVERED ON 21.01.2025 MCRC No. 6676 of 2024

1 - Manoj Kumar Soni S/o Sh. Narayan Prasad Soni Aged About 52 Years R/o 48, Khushi Watika, Amlidih, Raipur, Chhattisgarh - 492006 ... Applicant versus

1 - Directorate Of Enforcement, Through Assistant Director, E.D., Raipur Zonal Office, Raipur, District- Raipur, C.G.

... Respondent(s)

For Applicant : Shri Akshat Gupta, Advocate For Respondent : Dr. Saurabh Kumar Pandey, Advocate (HON’BLE SHRI JUSTICE ARVIND KUMAR VERMA)

C A V ORDER

The applicant has come up before this Court under Section 483 of the Bhartiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita [BNSS] 2023 read with Section 45 of the PMLA on behalf of the applicant originating from Case File bearing No. ECIR/RPZO/04/2023 dated 14.10.2023 registered with Enforcement Directorate Office [ED] for the offence punishable under Section 3 read with Section 4 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002.

FACTUAL ASPECTS

2. Facts of the case as revealed against the applicant is that he was an ITS Officer of 1995 batch and was on deputation in the State of Chhattisgarh since 16.06.2014 as the Special Secretary in the Se