JUDGEMENT

SWARANA KANTA SHARMA, J.

1. By way of present application filed under Section 439 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (‘Cr.P.C.’) the applicant Akhilesh Mishra seeks grant of regular bail in case FIR No. 264/2022, registered at Police Station Crime Branch, New Delhi, under Sections 170/389/387/465/ 471/120B/34 of Indian Penal Code, 1860 (‘IPC’).

2. Brief facts of the case are that the present FIR was registered at PS Crime Branch, Delhi on the complaint of Sh. Vipul Kaushik, which he had filed on behalf of Sh. Hardev Singh SB, who is the Industrial Unit President of Nippon Paint India Ltd. having its office in Mumbai and Vipul Kaushik is the channel partner of the company.

In the complaint, Sh. Hardev Singh had alleged that on 08.11.2022, he had received two separate notices of Enforcement Directorate on his Whatsapp, one for his appearance and another for his colleague Kumar Hakim (who is the Director of procurement in the factory situated at Nippon Paint India - Mumbai), directing Hardev Singh and Kumar Hakim to appear before Enforcement Directorate officer Manoj Kumar Teekla in his office in Delhi on 14.11.2022. On 10.11.2022, the same notices had also been r