2026:CGHC:5740 NAFR HIGH COURT OF CHHATTISGARH AT BILASPUR Reserved on 29-01-2026 Delivered on 02-02-2026 MCRCA No. 1701 of 2025 Narayan Sahu S/o Hariram Sahu Aged About 45 Years R/o Village- Hicha, Ward No.

11, District Mahasamund C.G. ... Applicant.

versus State of Chhattisgarh Through A C B (E O W), Raipur C.G.

... Respondent(s)

For applicant. : Mr. Gagan Tiwari, Advocate.

For Respondent(s) State : Mr. Sourabh Kumar Pande, Dy. Advocate General Hon'ble Shri Justice Narendra Kumar Vyas

CAV ORDER

1. This is the first bail application filed under Section 482 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 for grant of anticipatory bail to the applicant who apprehends his arrest in connection with Crime No. 03/2024 registered at Police Station- Anti Corruption Bureau/ Economic Offence Wing Chhattisgarh, Raipur, District- Raipur (C.G.) for the offence punishable under Sections 420, 120-B and 384 of IPC and Sections 7, 7-A and 12 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988. Initially the applicant had moved an application under Section 482 of BSNN 2023 for grant of anticipatory bail before the learned trial Court and learned trial Court vide its order dated 29-8-2024 has dismissed the same.

2. On 19.12.2025, learned State counsel has submitted before this Court that warrant of arrest has been issued against the applicant, as such the instant anticipatory bail application is liable to be dismissed on this count alone. On 07.01.2026, learned counsel for the applicant would submit that before issuance of warrant of arrest, no summons have been issued to the accused as he was not named in the FIR, as such, the procedure adopted by the prosecution is illegal and would submit that he may be allowed to produce the copy of the order-sheet of the trial Court.

3. This Court has directed the applicant to substantiate his submission to place on record relevant order sheets or record for perusal of the Court. Thereafter, the matter was taken up on 16.01.2026 and on 16.01.2026, learned counsel for the applicant prayed for time to comply with the earlier order dated 07.01.2026 passed by this Court, therefore, the matter was taken up on 29.01.2026 and on 29.01.2026 the learned counsel for the applicant would submit that he is unable to place on record the documents and would pray for hearing the matter finally on the basis of the material placed on record. On his submission, the bail application is heard finally.

4. The case of the prosecution, in brief, is that on 11.01.2024, one Mr.

Sandeep Ahuja, Deputy Director, Directorate of Enforcement, Raipur through Mr. Farhan Qureshi, Deputy Superintendent of Police lodged a complaint before the Director General of Police Anti Corruption Bureau & Economic Offences Wing, Chhattisgarh pertaining to predicate offence discovered during money laundering in investigation File No.

ECIR/RPZO/09/2022 was done under Section 66(2) of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 (for short “the PMLA”). Thereafter, an offence bearing FIR No. 03/2024 has been registered on 17.01.2024 at Police Station ACB/EOW Raipur (C.G.) against 35 accused persons namely Smt. Saumya Chaurasiya, Sameer Bisnoi, Smt. Ranu Sahu, Sandeep Kumar Nayak, Shivshankar Nag, Suryakant Tiwari, Manish Upadhyay, Roshan Kumar Singh, Nikhil Chandrakar, Rahul Singh, Parekh Kurre, Moinuddin Qureshi, Virendra Jaiswal, Rajnikant Tiwari, Hemant Jaiswal, Joginder Singh, Nawneet Tiwari, Deepesh Taunk, Devendra Dadsena, Rahul Mishra, Ramgopal Agrawal, Devendra Singh Yadav, Shishupal Sori, Rampratap Singh, Vinod Tiwari, Amarjeet Bhagat, Chandradeo Prasad Rai, Brashpat Singh, Idrish Gandhi, Gulab Kamro, Shri U.D. Minj, Sunil Kumar Agrawal, Jai, Chandraparakash Jaiswal, Laxmikant Tiwari & others.

5. Immediately after registration of the FIR, the Police have duly investigated the matter. However, from the investigation done so far it is revealed that confidential verification was done in the Bureau Police Station EOW/ACB Raipur, in relation to the report of letter number E