SANDEEPA VIRK vs DIRECTORATE OF ENFORCEMENT

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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 Signature Not Verified BAIL APPLN. 4331/2025 Page 1 of 14 Digitally Signed By:ZEENAT PRAVEEN Signing Date:27.12.2025 16:37:48 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 pe