THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA AT HYDERABAD THE HON’BLE SMT.JUSTICE TIRUMALA DEVI EADA Date:25.02.2026 Between:

Sukesh Gupta and two others …Petitioners And Directorate of Enforcement, Represented by Shiv Kumar Gupta, Assistant Director, Hyderabad Zonal Office, Basheerbagh, Hyderabad and another.

… Respondent

ORDER:

This Writ Petition is filed seeking to issue a writ of Certiorari calling for the records and to declare the action of the respondent in registering ECIR/HYZO/34/2020 as arbitrary and illegal and consequently set aside all the consequential proceedings emanating out of ECIR/HYZO/34/2020.

2. Heard Sri Rajesh Kumar Herur, learned counsel for the petitioners, Sri Anil Prasad Tiwari, learned Standing Counsel for respondent No.1 and Sri Bharat Reddy Bommineni, learned counsel for the respondent No.2.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner has submitted that the predicate offence is not in existence and that FIR No.41 of 2020 was quashed by this Court vide order dated 22.11.2022 in Crl.P. No.1559 of 2020, and hence, continuation of the offence under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (for short ‘PMLA’) is not tenable. The genesis of any PMLA case would be from the p