2024 (8) TMI 156

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.... the Respondent : Mr. N. Ramesh Special Public Prosecutor (ED) ORDER SUNDER MOHAN, J. The petitioner/A2 seeks for quashing of the ECIR proceedings against her, which is recorded in ECIR No.CEZO-I/35/2020 dated 22.06.2020. 2. The main ground raised by the petitioner/A2 is that the ECIR proceedings stems out of an FIR, which was registered in Crime No.7 of 2011, which culminated into a f....

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.... filed S.L.P. (Criminal) No(s).13304 of 2023 before the Hon'ble Supreme Court, challenging the dismissal of her quash petition. The Hon'ble Supreme Court had quashed the proceedings against the petitioner by an order dated 23.04.2024. The allegation in the said case is that A1 to A7 have entered into a criminal conspiracy in the commission of offence relating to allotment of housing plots ....

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.... plot and the allotment was made on 5th june, 2009. At this stage, our attention is invited to the judgment and order dated 29th August, 2023 passed by the High Court on a petition filed by the accused no. 5 praying for quashing the proceedings in CC No.14/2019. By the said judgment, the High Court has quashed the same as against the accused no.5. When we made a query to the learned senior counsel....

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.... quashed. The proceedings will continue against the other accused." 7. This Court has, in similar cases, expressed its view that the proceedings under the PMLA 2002 cannot proceed further, once the FIR/Final Report relating to the predicate offence is quashed. The law is well settled by the larger Bench of the Hon'ble Supreme Court in the case of Vijay Madanlal Choudhary and Others v. Union....