2015 (7) TMI 1387
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....stant Director, Directorate of Enforcement, Govt. of India pertaining to File No. ECIR/06/M20/2015/1992. 2. Mr. Ponda, learned counsel for the petitioner, contends that the petitioner has received summons from respondent No.2 under Section 50 of the Prevention of Money-Laundering Act, 2002, requiring the petitioner's attendance in connection with investigation under the provisions of the Prevention of Money-Laundering Act, 2002. He contended that the petitioner had filed criminal writ petition No.2788 of 2015 for quashing the summons and also for calling the records pertaining to above referred file. This petition, however, was disposed of by consent order on 20th July, 2015. However, the petitioner proposed and respondent No.2 ag....
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.... 4. Mr. Ponda lastly invited our attention to the order dated 2 nd December, 2014 and submitted that the petitioner's husband was arrested by the same investigating officer, though the summons was issued in the name of the 3rd person. He alleged mala fide on the part of respondent No.2 and, therefore, submitted that the petitioner is entitled to know the nature of the proceedings in relation to which she is being summoned. 5. Ms. Gonsalvez, learned counsel for respondent No.2, opposed the petition vehemently. She submitted that the petition is not maintainable as the petitioner is seeking reliefs similar to the reliefs claimed in earlier criminal writ petition No. 2788 of 2015. She also submitted that the investigation is at a prelimin....
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....ated in the schedule attached to the summons. In prayer clause (c) of the said petition, the petitioner had also sought direction to call for record and proceedings of the complaints pertaining to ECIR/06/MZO/2015/1992 from respondent No.2. The prayer of the present petition is similar to prayer clause (c) of the earlier petition except that in the present petition, the petitioner has sought for the copies of the documents relating to ECIR/06/MZO/2015/1992. That apart, ECIR is an internal document of Enforcement Directorate and unlike FIR, it is not a public document. Hence the copy of the same cannot be furnished to the petitioner as of right. The investigation is at the preliminary stage and granting the reliefs as prayed for, in our....