2026 (4) TMI 1086

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....enging the impugned final orders dated 29.10.2025 passed in FPA.PMLA-2347/CHN/2018, FPA.PMLA-2348/CHN/2018, FPA.PMLA-2349/CHN/2018, FPA.PMLA-2351/CHN/2018, FPA.PMLA-2350/CHN/2018, FPA.PMLA-2356/CHN/2018, FPA.PMLA-2354/CHN/2018, FPA.PMLA-2352/CHN/2018, FPA.PMLA-2357/CHN/2018 and FPA.PMLA-2355/CHN/2018 by the Appellate Tribunal under SAFEMA, New Delhi, the appellants have preferred the present Civil Miscellaneous Appeals. 2.Heard the Learned Counsels appearing on either side and perused the materials available on record. 3.The FIR No.156/2012 dated 06.08.2012 was lodged at P.S. Keelavalavu, District Madurai, Tamil Nadu against the accused persons for the Commission of offences punishable under Sections 120-B of IPC read with 304, 447, 3....

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.... charge-sheets were filed in first three FIRs, against the same accused persons, for similar offences in different Police Station totaling the loss to the Government exchequer to the Rs. 450 crores. 6.As per the Orders of the District Collector, the Comprehensive survey and Inspection of all the granite quarries permitted by the Government was carried out to detect violations of lease conditions and norms. The Inspection was carried out from 02.08.2012 and a preliminary report was furnished by each of the teams at the end of August 2012. As per the said report, out of 175 Leased Quarries, 86 Quarries were found to have flagrantly violated the lease conditions as on date and the lease holders have carried out illicit quarrying in adjacent....

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....recorded the statements of the suspects/accused persons and others under Section 50 of PMLA and also collected the relevant documents from the various sources. After investigation, on the basis of material, the Deputy Director, ED formed the reasonable believe that the persons accused in the aforementioned FIRS committed the Scheduled Offences and have caused the wrongful loss to the Government exchequer estimated to the tune of Rs. 499.56 crores and corresponding wrongful gain to themselves, during the period between 2001 to 2012 by illegal quarrying, and thereafter, the accused person sold the granites in the international/ domestic market in excess of the declared quantity and realized the sale proceeds. The pecuniary benefits obtained b....