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 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 21.10.2