1. Since both the anticipatory bail applications arise out of a common offence and crime / ECIR case registered with the Directorate of Enforcement, they are heard and disposed of together.

2. The instant are first applications for grant of anticipatory bail to the Applicants. They are apprehending their arrest in connection with Crime / ECIR No.ECIR / RPSZO / 01/2019 registered with the Directorate of Enforcement, Raipur (now, as submitted by Learned Assistant Solicitor General, said ECIR case has been transferred to the Directorate of Enforcement, New Delhi) for offence punishable under S.3 and S.4 of the Prevention of Money - Laundering Act, 2002 (''PMLA'' for brevity).

3. The case, in brief, is that the Anti Corruption Bureau / Economic Offences Wing (ACB / EOW for short), Raipur had registered First Information Report bearing FIR No.9/2015 dated 12.2.2015 against Shiv Shankar Bhatt and 26 other persons in which both the present Applicants were also roped in for alleged commission of offence punishable under S.13(1)(e) and S.13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 and S.109 and S.120B of the Indian Penal Code in the supplementary charge - sheet filed by the ACB / EOW on 5