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* IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI

% Judgment reserved on: 24.12.2025

Judgment pronounced on: 27.12.2025

Judgment uploaded on: 27.12.2025

+ BAIL APPLN. 4331/2025

SANDEEPA VIRK ....Petitioner

Through: Mr. Anurag Alhuwalia, Senior

Advocate with Mr. Ashish

Upadhyay, Advocate.

versus

DIRECTORATE OF ENFORCEMENT .....Respondent

Through: Mr. Samrat Goswami, Panel

counsel for DoE with Mr.

Shrinivas Sinha and Mr.

Vivek, Advocates.

CORAM:

HON'BLE DR. JUSTICE SWARANA KANTA SHARMA

JUDGMENT

DR. SWARANA KANTA SHARMA, J

1. The applicant has approached this Court, seeking grant of

regular bail in case arising out of ECIR No. ECIR/HIU-II/24/2025,

recorded by the Directorate of Enforcement [hereafter ‗DoE‘] for the

commission of offence punishable under Sections 3/4 of the

Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 [hereafter ‗PMLA‘].

Factual Background

2. Succinctly, it is the case of the DoE that one FIR No. 91/2016

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was registered on 16.11.2016 at Police Station Phase-8, SAS Nagar,

Mohali, for commission of offence under Sections 406/420 of the

Indian Penal Code, 1860 [hereafter ‗IPC‘] against accused Amit

Gupta @ Nageshwar Gupta and other co-accused persons (including

applicant herein). The allegations in the said FIR are that the accused

persons had duped the complainant and her family members of an

amount of approximately ₹6 crores on the pretext of offering the

complainant the role of a lead actress in a film and inducing her to

invest money in the production of the said film. It is further the case

of prosecution that a charge-sheet has already been filed in the

aforesaid FIR and that accused Amit Gupta @ Nageshwar Gupta was

declared a proclaimed person vide order dated 21.10.2024 passed by

the learned JMFC, SAS Nagar, Mohali. It is stated that the offence

punishable under Section 420 of IPC is a scheduled offence under the

PMLA, and on the said basis, the present ECIR being ECIR/HIU-

II/24/2025 dated 11.08.2025 was recorded for the offence punishable

under Sections 3 and 4 of the PMLA.

3. According to the DoE, the present applicant, Sandeepa Virk,

was engaged in creating undue influence by misrepresenting herself

and allegedly duping various persons by inducing them to part with

money. It is alleged that the applicant used a fake e-commerce

website for the purposes of money laundering and claimed herself to

be the owner of the website hyboocare.com, which purportedly sold

FDA-approved beauty products and reflected its registered address as

WZ-44/1, Street No. 13, Krishna Puri, Krishna Park, Old Mahavir

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Nagar, Tilak Nagar, New Delhi. It is alleged that upon verification,

the products listed on the said website were found to be fake. It is

further alleged that accused Amit Gupta @ Nageshwar Gupta and the

applicant herein utilized the proceeds of crime generated from the

aforesaid scheduled offence to acquire immovable properties,

including Flat No. 2103 situated in Mumbai, which was allegedly

acquired jointly in the names of Amit Gupta @ Nageshwar Gupta,

the applicant Sandeepa Virk, and one Kamla, and later transferred

completely in the name of applicant. The DoE has further alleged that

the applicant utilized part of the proceeds of crime, directly and

indirectly, to finance her alleged luxurious lifestyle, travel expenses,

and for the purchase of two additional immovable properties situated

at Krishna Park, Tilak Nagar, New Delhi. It is also the case of the

DoE that the applicant destroyed her mobile phone, which constituted

material evidence in the present matter, and thereby committed an act

amounting to destruction of evidence. On the aforesaid allegations, it

is asserted that the applicant actively participated in the process and

activities connected with the offence of money laundering and was

knowingly involved in the acq