Delhi High Court
Vedpal Singh Tanwar vs Directorate Of Enforcement on 9 June, 2025
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* IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI
% Judgment reserved on: 09.06.2025
Judgment pronounced on: 09.06.2025
+ BAIL APPLN. 4102/2024
VEDPAL SINGH TANWAR .....Petitioner
Through: Mr. Vikas Pahwa, Sr. Advocate with
Mr. Sumer Singh Boparai, Mr.
Sirhaan Seth, Mr. Surya Pratap Singh
and Ms. Sanskriti Shakuntala Gupta,
Advocates.
versus
DIRECTORATE OF ENFORCEMENT .....Respondent
Through: Mr. Zoheb Hossain, Standing Counsel
for ED (through videoconferencing)
CORAM:
JUSTICE GIRISH KATHPALIA
JUDGMENT
GIRISH KATHPALIA, J.:
1. The accused/applicant seeks bail under Section 45/65 of the
Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 (hereinafter referred to as “the
PML Act“) read with Section 483 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita
in the Prosecution Complaint no.1929/2024 arising out of ECIR/HIU-
1/08/2023 of PS HIU, Directorate of Enforcement (DoE) for offence under
Section 3 and 4 of the PML Act The bail is sought on merits as well as on
medical grounds. I heard senior counsel for the accused/applicant and the
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Special Public Prosecutor for DoE, assisted by the Investigating Officer (IO)
in prelunch session today.
PRELUDE
2. During pendency of this bail application before the predecessor
bench, the accused/applicant also filed a miscellaneous application bearing
no. CRL.M.(BAIL) 131/2025 seeking interim bail on medical grounds. Vide
order dated 27.01.2025, the predecessor bench granted interim bail for a
period of six weeks to the accused/applicant, directing him to surrender
immediately after expiry of six weeks from the date of release.
2.1 Once the accused/applicant got released on interim bail, the matter
was repeatedly adjourned before the predecessor benches for different
reasons.
2.2 The accused/applicant filed another miscellaneous application
numbered as CRL.M.(BAIL) 541/2025, seeking extension of the interim
bail, for which the predecessor bench issued notice returnable on
03.04.2025, extending the interim protection till that day.
2.3 On 03.04.2025, the matter was listed before another bench, where the
senior counsel for the accused/applicant requested the matter to be placed
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before the previous bench, so the said bench adjourned the matter to
07.04.2025.
2.4 On 07.04.2025, the predecessor bench released the matter from
category of part heard and directed listing of the matter before this bench on
21.04.2025 after extending the interim protection till that day.
2.5 Thence, the matter came to be listed before this bench for the first
time on 21.04.2025.
2.6 On 21.04.2025, senior counsel for the accused/applicant sought
adjournment to place on record further medical documents of the
accused/applicant; the Special Public Prosecutor on behalf of DoE opted not
to object to the adjournment request but submitted that the application
CRL.M(Bail) 541/2025 had become infructuous because the period of six
weeks of the protection sought therein had already expired on
19.04.2025;the prosecutor also submitted that under the garb of interim bail,
the accused/applicant cannot be allowed to enjoy regular bail, as for more
than 247 days the accused/applicant had been on interim bail as against
custody period of just 82 days; considering the rival contentions, after
examining the medical record, this bench directed the accused/applicant to
surrender before the concerned Jail Superintendent on same day by 08:00pm
and also directed the jail authorities to provide him best possible medical
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treatment including medical examination and treatment at AIIMS, and the
medical status report from AIIMS was directed to be filed by the IO.
Adjourning the matter to 05.05.2025, it was made clear that on the
adjourned date both sides would address arguments for interim bail on
medical grounds as well as for regular bail.
2.7 On 05.05.2025, various reports from different departments of AIIMS
were received in multiple envelopes regarding examination and treatment of
the accused/applicant; counsel for DoE also submitted a copy of AIIMS
report dated 02.05.2025 which was accepted across the board, to be scanned
and made part of record; after supplying copies of the report to counsel for
the accused/applicant, so that they could examine the same, the matter was
adjourned as it was already 04:55pm and the board was yet to be wound up.
2.8 On the next date (13.05.2025), arguments on regular bail application
were heard for about half an hour but had to be deferred due to paucity of
time.
2.9 On the next date (16.05.2025), arguments on behalf of the
accused/applicant were heard and concluded; but for arguments on behalf of
DoE, matter had to be adjourned because the prosecutor had to attend
another part heard matter before another bench.
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2.10 On the next date (21.05.2025), the matter reached by end of the day
and both sides requested that they needed at least one hour to conclude
arguments, so the matter was adjourned to 14.07.2025 i.e., after about 18
working days.
3. By 21.05.2025, the roster of vacation benches was not ready,
otherwise this matter, as part-heard matter, could have been posted before
this bench during vacation duty itself. However, vide order dated
29.05.2025, passed in W.P.(CRL) No.231/2025 titled Vedpal Singh Tanwar
vs Directorate of Enforcement, the Supreme Court directed hearing of this
matter today, which has been done in compliance. Even today, after
addressing for 1 hour 15 minutes, the senior counsel for the
accused/applicant and the prosecutor for State sought to file written
submissions after exchanging copies. But that request was declined as it
would have again led to an adjournment, so that they be not deprived of
opportunity to examine the submissions and respond. Thence, the final
arguments were concluded in pre-lunch session and matter was passed over
for orders in this post-lunch session.
RELEVANT FACTUAL MATRIX
4. Briefly stated, circumstances relevant for present purposes are as
follows.
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4.1 The accused/applicant was unofficially a shareholder in the firm,
namely Goverdhan Mines and Minerals (GMM), which carried out illegal
and unscientific mining; and pertaining to the same, the Haryana State
Pollution Control Board (HSPCB), Bhiwani filed a Complaint under Section
15 read with Sections 16 and 19 of the Environment (Protection) Act
(hereinafter referred to as “the EP Act“) before the court of Special Judge,
Environment Court, Kurukshetra, Haryana and the same is pending trial.
According to the said complaint under the EP Act, the National Green
Tribunal in O.A. 169/2020 had constituted a committee of eight members in
order to probe illegal and unscientific mining in Dadam Mines, which
committee found that GMM had undertaken mining illegally beyond the
mining area and in violation of mining plan, as confirmed by the scientific
imagery. The committee constituted by the NGT also observed that GMM
had failed to provide necessary green belt along the lease boundary in the
lease area and had failed to provide safety zone inside the lease mining
boundary and had carried out mining activity beyond permissible mining
area and beyond permissible depth and cost of restoration of damage to the
plantation apart from cost of illegally mined material. It was further
observed by the said committee that unregulated mining activity resulted
into serious damage to air, water and land as the same involved blasting,
drilling, cutting and blowing natural hills, thereby affecting natural
environment, generating massive dust emissions without the requisite
mitigation measures.
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4.2 On the basis of the report submitted by the said eight member
committee, the NGT passed order in OA No.169/2020, holding GMM guilty
of illegal mining.
4.3 The local police of PS Tosham registered FIR No.449/2023 regarding
the rampant illegal and unscientific mining by GMM and its partners,
thereby causing huge unlawful gain to themselves and unlawful loss to
exchequer. During investigation, the relevant documents were collected and
search operations were carried out, culminating into the detection of illegal
mining in Dadam mines hills carried out by the accused firm and its
partners. During investigation, it was found that the present
accused/applicant played lead role in the firm by looking after all its major
activities. The investigation revealed that the accused/applicant committed
the offences in well planned manner with the motive to generate proceeds of
crime in the form of money, followed by money laundering which caused
huge revenue loss to the State. The accused/applicant is one of the main
beneficiaries of the offences thus committed.
4.4 Treating the aforesaid as the Scheduled Offences under the PML Act,
the DoE registered the Prosecution Complaint before the court of competent
jurisdiction and arrested the accused/applicant.
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4.5 Hence, the present applications for grant of bail.
RIVAL CONTENTIONS
5. Against the above backdrop, senior counsel for the accused/applicant
contended that the accused/applicant is innocent and cannot be charged with
offence under Section 3/4 of the PML Act. The senior counsel for the
accused/applicant argued as follows.
5.1 Existence of proceeds of crime is sine qua non in order to make out an
offence under Section 3 of the PML Act and the proceeds of crime can be
identified only through the predicate offence, so where there is no predicate
offence, there is no proceeds of crime and consequently there is no offence
under the PML Act.
5.2 The prosecution complaint by the HSPCB for offences under Section
15/16/19 of the EP Act did not name the accused/applicant.
5.3 The said complaint under the EP Act was filed on 23.05.2022, and on
22.12.2022 a Bill was introduced in the Parliament to remove the EP Act
from the Schedule to the PML Act. The said Bill was passed on 02.08.2023
by both Houses of Parliament, thereby removing the EP Act from Schedule
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to the PML Act. But during pendency of the Bill, on 16.06.2023, the ECIR
was lodged on the said complaint.
5.4 Sections 15/16/19 of the EP Act are not scheduled offence under the
PML Act according to Paragraph 25 of Schedule to the PML Act, therefore,
DoE is not empowered to investigate.
5.5 On 30.05.2024, the accused/applicant was arrested and a petition for
quashing the FIR is already pending before the Punjab and Haryana High
Court, and till date no cognizance has been taken so the accused/applicant is
entitled to bail. Although, the FIR is of the year 2023, but no chargesheet
alleging forgery or cheating has been filed till date. The quashing of the said
FIR would automatically lead to closure of the ECIR under the PML Act.
5.6 The proceeds of crime quantified in the Prosecution Complaint cannot
be taken into consideration as the table of quantification thereof is a copy-
paste of the findings of HSPCB. Since illegal mining is no more a scheduled
offence, it cannot lead to the proceeds of crime.
5.7 Lastly, the accused/applicant is also entitled to be released on bail on
principle of parity because none of the remaining accused has been arrested.
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5.8 In addition to the above arguments on merits, the accused/applicant is
also entitled to be released on bail in view of his medical condition, as
reflected from the medical status reports.
6. On the other hand, the Special Public Prosecutor vehemently opposed
the bail application, contending that the gravity of offences with expanse
thereof, causing huge loss to the exchequer and consequent gain to the
GMM and the accused/applicant does not permit release of the
accused/applicant on bail. The Special Public Prosecutor addressed as
follows.
6.1 In view of quantum of the unlawful gain earned by the
accused/applicant, the apprehension of DoE is not baseless that he would
flee the country and/or would hamper further investigation and/or trial, if
released on bail.
6.2 Section 45 of the PML Act clearly stipulates that bail in such cases
can be granted only if there are reasonable grounds to believe that the
accused is not guilty of the offence of money laundering and that he is not
likely to commit any offence while on bail. These two mandatory pre-
conditions for grant of bail were upheld by the Supreme Court in the
celebrated judgment Vijay Madanlal Chaudhary vs Union of India, 2022
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SCC OnLine SC 929, as money laundering is a separate class of offence
which calls for effective and stringent measures.
6.3 In the present case, neither of those two pre-conditions is satisfied.
The Prosecution Complaint details the scheduled offence, investigation
under the PML Act, quantification of proceeds of crime, modus operandi of
the accused firm and specific role of the accused/applicant as deduced from
the incriminating material qua money laundering. As regards cognizance of
the complaint, the said complaint was filed on 27.07.2024 and arguments on
point of cognizance are being carried out before the concerned court.
6.4 Same act can be tantamount to an offence under the EP Act as well as
under the Penal Code. So, the argument that after scrapping of the offence
under the EP Act as a scheduled offence would not be sustainable argument.
In this regard, relevance is placed on the judgment in the case of Jayant &
Ors vs State of Madhya Pradesh, (2021) 2 SCC 670. Besides, during the
period when the alleged offences of illegal mining were committed, the
offence under the EP Act existed on the statue book as a scheduled offence.
6.5 Even in the case of FIR No. 449/2023, till date no interim relief was
granted to the accused/applicant despite challenge to the same before the
High Court. Rather, for quashing of ECIR, a writ petition W.P. (Crl.)
1562/2025 was filed by one of the accused persons before a coordinate
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bench of this Court, in which the ad-interim stay application was dismissed
vide order dated 22.05.2025. As on the date when the accused/applicant was
arrested, FIR No. 449/2023 already formed a part of the ECIR as a predicate
offence.
6.6 As regards the parity argument, the accused/applicant being kingpin
of the entire gamut of offences cannot be treated at par with the remaining
accused persons. However, the investigation is still pending, so the DoE
would take appropriate decision at appropriate stage.
6.7 So far as the alleged illness of the accused/applicant is concerned, the
same has to be a life threatening ailment in order to extend the benefit of bail
to the accused in such cases, but that is not the case made out from medical
record of the accused/applicant received from AIIMS. Further, even during
the period of interim bail granted by the predecessor benches on medical
grounds, the accused/applicant filed a number of petitions before different
courts, which clearly shows that he is not so seriously ill that he be released
on bail.
7. In rebuttal arguments, senior counsel for the accused/applicant
reiterated the arguments already advanced by him and noted above. The
senior counsel for the accused/applicant reiterated that prolonged
incarceration is in itself a ground to release the accused/applicant on bail.
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8. In support of their rival contentions, both sides referred to certain
judicial precedents. The legal position, elucidated in those judicial
pronouncements is not in dispute. In order to ensure brevity herein, only
some of those precedents are quoted below.
LEGAL POSITION
9. The issue of grant or denial of bail in offences under the PML Act is
regulated under Section 45 thereof, which, succinctly stating, mandates for
giving an opportunity to the prosecutor to oppose the bail application and
further embodies twin mandatory conditions for allowing bail to the
accused: (i) that there are reasonable grounds for believing that the accused
is not guilty of the offence of money laundering; and (ii) that the accused is
not likely to commit any offence while on bail. However, proviso to Section
45 also confers discretion on the Special Court under the PML Act to admit
on bail an accused under the age of sixteen years, or a woman, or sick or
infirm or is accused of money laundering a sum of less than one crore
rupees. Remaining portion of Section 45 is not relevant for present purposes.
9.1 In the case of Vijay Madanlal Chaudhary (supra), the Supreme Court
traversed through the laudable purpose behind enactment of the PML Act
and observed thus:
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“Considering the purposes and objects of the legislation in the
form of 2002 Act and the background in which it had been
enacted owing to the commitment made to the international
bodies and on their recommendations, it is plainly clear that it
is a special legislation to deal with the subject of money
laundering activities having transnational impact on the
financial systems including sovereignty and integrity of the
countries. This is not an ordinary offence. To deal with such
serious offence, stringent measures are provided in the 2002
Act for prevention of money laundering and combating menace
of money-laundering, including for attachment and
confiscation of proceeds of crime and to prosecute persons
involved in the process or activity connected with the proceeds
of crime. In view of the gravity of the fallout of money
laundering activities having transnational impact, a special
procedural law for prevention and regulation, including to
prosecute the person involved, has been enacted, grouping the
offenders involved in the process or activity connected with the
proceeds of crime as a separate class from ordinary criminals.
The offence of money-laundering has been regarded as an
aggravated form of crime “world over”. It is, therefore, a
separate class of offence requiring effective and stringent
measures to combat the menace of money laundering.
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Thus, it is well settled by the various decisions of this Court
and policy of the State as also the view of international
community that the offence of money-laundering is committed
by an individual with a deliberate design with the motive to
enhance his gains, disregarding the interests of nation and
society as a whole and which by no stretch of imagination can
be termed as offence of trivial nature. Thus, it is in the interest
of the State that law enforcement agencies should be provided
with a proportionate effective mechanism so as to deal with
these types of offences as the wealth of the nation is to be
safeguarded from these dreaded criminals. As discussed above,
the conspiracy of money-laundering, which is a three-staged
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process, is hatched in secrecy and executed in darkness, thus, it
becomes imperative for the State to frame such a stringent law,
which not only punishes the offender proportionately, but also
helps in preventing the offence and creating a deterrent effect.
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The Court while dealing with the application for grant of bail
need not delve deep into the merits of the case and only a
view of the Court based on available material on record is
required. The Court will not weigh the evidence to find the
guilt of the accused which is, of course, the work of Trial
Court. The Court is only required to place its view based on
probability on the basis of reasonable material collected
during investigation and the said view will not be taken into
consideration by the Trial Court in recording its finding of
the guilt or acquittal during trial which is based on the
evidence adduced during the trial….. the words used in
Section 45 of the 2002 Act are “reasonable grounds for
believing” which means the Court has to see only if there is a
genuine case against the accused and the prosecution is not
required to prove the charge beyond reasonable doubt.”
(emphasis supplied)
9.2 There is plethora of judicial pronouncement, not being repeated herein
for brevity that existence of the twin conditions stipulated under Section 45
of the PML Act is mandatory before the court exercises discretion to release
on bail a person accused of the offence of money laundering; and that the
belief qua the accused being guilty of money laundering has to be tested on
“reasonable grounds”, which means something more than “prima facie”
grounds. Equally well settled is the scope of Section 24 of the PML Act that
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of crime in money laundering; and that burden to prove that the proceeds of
crime are not involved is on the accused.
9.3 Further, it is trite that economic offences constitute an altogether
distinct class of offences. That being so, in spite of the salutary doctrine of
“bail is the rule and jail is an exception”, matters of bail in cases involving
socio-economic offences have to be visited with a different approach, as
held in State of Bihar & Anr. vs Amit Kumar (2017) 13 SCC 751.
9.4 As held by the Supreme Court in the case of Y.S.Jagan Mohan Reddy
vs CBI, (2013) 7 SCC 439:
“15) Economic offences constitute a class apart and need to be
visited with a different approach in the matter of bail. The
economic offence having deep rooted conspiracies and
involving huge loss of public funds needs to be viewed
seriously and considered as grave offences affecting the
economy of the country as a whole and thereby posing serious
threat to the financial health of the country.
16) While granting bail, the court has to keep in mind the
nature of accusations, the nature of evidence in support
thereof, the severity of the punishment which conviction will
entail, the character of the accused, circumstances which are
peculiar to the accused, reasonable possibility of securing the
presence of the accused at the trial, reasonable apprehension
of the witnesses being tampered with, the larger interests of the
public/State and other similar considerations.”
9.5 On the aspect of bail in cases involving socio-economic offences,
differential treatment in consideration unlike conventional crimes has been
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the law of land, reiterated in a plethora of judicial pronouncement flowing
from apex court. Reference, to cite a few may be drawn from Rohit Tandon
vs Directorate of Enforcement, (2018) 11 SCC 46; Serious Fraud
Investigation Office vs Nitin Johari, (2019) 9 SCC 165; and Nimmagadda
Prasad vs CBI, (2013) 7 SCC 466.
PRESENT CASE ANALYSIS
10. Falling back to the present case, the Complaint dated 27.07.2024 filed
under Section 44 read with Section 45 of the PML Act (Annexure A2 to the
Bail Application) seeks prosecution of the persons named therein as accused,
including the accused/applicant for the offence of money laundering, as
defined under Section 3 read with Section 70 of the PML Act and
punishable under Section 4 of the PML Act. The Prosecution Complaint
enlists the Scheduled Offences as the Complaint dated 23.05.2022, filed by
HSPCB against the accused persons under Section 15 read with Sections
16&19 of the EP Act, cognizance whereof has already been taken by the
concerned Special Court and summons have already been issued to the
accused persons; Order passed by the NGT in OA No.169/2020 on the basis
of Report submitted by the eight member committee constituted by the NGT
qua the extent of illegal and unscientific mining in Dadam mines by the
project proponent GMM; and FIR No.449/2023, registered by PS Tosham,
Bhiwani for offences under Section 420/463/471/120B IPC against few
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business entities and their partners/directors including the present
accused/applicant.
10.1 On the basis of the Complaint filed by HSPCB and findings recorded
by the NGT, investigation into the offence of money laundering was
initiated by the DoE vide ECIR dated 16.06.2023. During investigation
searches at various premises were conducted and voluminous incriminating
material was recovered and seized, which material prima facie reflected
commission of the Scheduled Offences related to illegal mining, leading to
generation of proceeds of crime. On the basis of that information shared, the
local police of PS Tosham registered FIR No. 449/2023 against the accused
persons and investigated the same as regards offences of cheating, forgery
and conspiracy.
10.2 The investigation under the PML Act was proceeded further to
unearth the proceeds of crime and to identify the persons involved in the
process of generation thereof.
10.3 The accused/applicant was arrested on 30.05.2024 for his role in the
offence of money laundering and his custody was granted to the DoE by the
Special Judge, PML Act, Saket, Delhi till 10.06.2024. Statements of the
accused/applicant and his family members were recorded under Section 50,
PML Act on various dates, as elucidated in the complaint.
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10.4 On the basis of investigation, elaborately described by DoE in the
Prosecution Complaint, the proceeds of crime were quantified to be
Rs.78,14,75,324/-. In respect of just the accused/applicant, the proceeds of
crime were quantified to be Rs.22,81,90,795/-.
10.5 The role of the accused/applicant in the offences, according to the
investigation is that he is the kingpin and the biggest beneficiary of the
illegal mining. Large number of willing partners, benamis and facilitators
connived with the accused/applicant in various activities associated with the
proceeds of crime, generated through illegal mining and fudging of
shareholding records in the books, as analyzed elaborately in the complaint.
As elaborately described with the help of evidence unearthed during
investigation, the accused/applicant was instrumental in formation of GMM
to only create a smokescreen, so that he could escape his debarment from
bidding for mining lease by the Mining Department of Haryana Government
and thus he enjoyed more than 40% of shareholding in GMM through
unofficial channels. In order to circumvent his undertaking given before the
Punjab & Haryana High Court to bid Rs.150 crores for Dadam mines and to
escape future liability, the accused/applicant did not name himself and his
family members, but managed and controlled GMM, as per voluminous
documentary evidence collected during investigation. The accused/applicant
was actually involved in generation of proceeds of crime by undertaking
rampant illegal and unscientific mining through GMM and transferring the
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proceeds to his personal and/or family accounts, followed by utilizing the
same as untainted property, as detailed in the Complaint.
11. In view of the aforesaid, the question before this court is as to whether
the twin conditions test stands satisfied in the present case, so as to grant bail
to the accused/applicant on merits, despite the vast expanse of the socio-
economic offences alleged against him. As mentioned in the Complaint,
further investigation is going on in the matter.
12. According to the said Complaint filed by HSPCB (Annexure A31 to
the Bail Application), GMM engaged itself in unscientific mining, which led
to landslides, causing loss of four lives and injuries to many others in
Dadam mining zone in Tosham block of District Bhiwani. Such illegal and
unscientific mining resulted into severe damage to air, land and water
through processes of uncontrolled drilling, cutting and blasting beyond the
permitted area, coupled with generation of tons of dust emissions. I am not
convinced with argument of senior counsel for the accused/applicant that the
same does not fall within the purview of Paragraph 25 of the Schedule to the
PML Act.
13. It is not just the said Complaint filed by the HSPCB, but also the FIR
No.449/2023 registered by PS Tosham, which describes in detail the
offences of cheating, forgery and conspiracy committed by the accused
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persons, including the accused/applicant to carry out illegal mining in order
to earn unlawful gain for the accused persons and the consequent unlawful
loss to the exchequer, quantified to be Rs.78,14,75,324/- as described above.
The investigation carried out by recovering and seizing volumes of
documentary material, as elaborately described in the Complaint shows
complicity of the accused/applicant in the offences alleged and expanse
thereof. And the investigation continues further. That being so, the
apprehension of the DoE that if released on bail, the accused/applicant
would flee the country and/or hamper further investigation and/or trial
cannot be brushed aside as baseless.
14. After examining the elaborate material on record, I am unable to
satisfy myself that there is any reasonable ground for believing that the
accused/applicant is not guilty of the offences alleged. That being so, the
rigors of Section 45 of the PML Act dissuade this court from admitting the
accused/applicant to bail on merits.
15. Coming to the plea of the accused/applicant for grant of bail on
medical grounds, as mentioned above, in compliance with the directions of
this court, the accused/applicant was examined by different departments of
AIIMS, Delhi; and each department sent its separate report. Those reports
were compiled and tabulated by the Senior Medical Officer of the
Dispensary in the Central Jail No.7, Tihar, New Delhi and submitted as
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consolidated Medical Status Report dated 02.05.2025. According to the said
Medical Status Report, the accused applicant is stable and regularly
reviewed by the doctor on duty; and all medicines prescribed by AIIMS are
being provided to him from jail dispensary itself. So, on that count also the
accused/applicant has failed to establish a ground for grant of bail.
16. To recapitulate, the elaborate Complaint, supported by voluminous
documentary record reflecting the unlawful gain to the accused persons,
including the accused/applicant and the consequent unlawful loss to the
exchequer quantified to be Rs.78,14,75,324/-, coupled with failure on the
twin tests laid down under Section 45 of the PML Act; and no serious health
issue decipherable from the Medical Status Report received from the jail, I
find it not a fit case to release the accused/applicant on bail. The applications
(for regular as well as for interim bail) are dismissed. Copy of this order be
sent immediately to the Superintendent of the concerned jail for being
conveyed to the accused/applicant.
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GIRISH GIRISH KATHPALIA
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GIRISH KATHPALIA
(JUDGE)
JUNE 09, 2025/as
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