LOVEE NARULA vs DIRECTORATE OF ENFORCEMENT

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$~ SB-2 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Date of Decision: 09.06.2025 + BAIL APPLN. 1937/2025 LOVEE NARULA .....Applicant Through: Mr. Amit Chadha, Senior Advocate alongwith Mr. Rahul Vats, Ms. Neha Kumari, Mr. Rohit Singh, Mr. Saarthak Sethi & Mr. Harjas Singh, Advocates. versus DIRECTORATE OF ENFORCEMENT .....Respondent Through: Mr. Arkaj Kumar, Standing Counsel with Mr. Aakarsh Mishra, Mr. Ishank Jha & Ms. Vaishnavi Bhargava, Advocates for State. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE TEJAS KARIA TEJAS KARIA, J. (Oral) 1. The present application is filed for grant of interim bail under Section 483 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (‘BNSS’) and Section 45 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 (‘PMLA’) for a period of forty five days on humanitarian ground to enable the Applicant to attend to his critically ill mother, Smt. Parvesh Narula and to make necessary arrangements for her continued medical treatment, including MRI scans, consultations, hospitalisation, surgical intervention, and rehabilitation. 2. The Applicant is accused in case bearing ECIR/DLZ0-11/03/2024 BAIL APPLN. 1937/2025 Page 1 of 6 dated 16.03.2024 registered under Sections 3 and 4 of PMLA. The Applicant is presently in judicial custody and had earlier approached the learned Sessions Court, Tis Hazari Courts, Delhi (‘Sessions Court’) by way of an application under Section 483 of the BNSS read with Section 45 of the PMLA for grant of interim bail for a period of thirty days on the same grounds as mentioned in the present application. However, the Sessions Court vide order dated 13.05.2025 dismissed the application for interim bail and instead granted custody parole for a duration of six hours solely for the limited purpose of accompanying Applicant’s mother to a hospital/diagnos