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2024 (4) TMI 688 - CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURTSeeking grant of anticipatory bail - Money Laundering - twin conditions of Section 45 of the PMLA Act satisfied or not - main accused was exonerated on identical allegations by the Adjudicating Authority - HELD THAT:- It is not in dispute that the FIR was registered on 19.02.2010 whereas the respondent filed a complaint arraying the applicant as accused in ECIR on 04.01.2021 i.e. after 10 years. From the summons issued to the applicant, it is quite vivid that she was permitted to appear through an authorized person and it cannot be said that she did not cooperate in the investigation. According to the proviso appended to Section 45 of the PMLA Act, a woman may be granted anticipatory bail. The judgment passed by the Hon’ble Supreme Court in the matter of Satender Kumar Antil [2022 (8) TMI 152 - SUPREME COURT] cannot be lost sight of as the applicant is a lady and she cooperated in the investigation of the matter and other co-accused persons against whom similar allegations were made, have already been granted anticipatory bail by the Hon’ble Supreme Court and by this Court, therefore, in the considered opinion of this Court, the present is a fit case to extend the benefit under Section 438 of Cr. P.C. to the applicant. The anticipatory bail application is allowed and it is directed that in the event of arrest of the applicant in connection with the aforesaid offence, she shall be released on anticipatory bail on her furnishing a personal bond for a sum of Rs. 50,000/- with one surety in the like sum to the satisfaction of the arresting officer on the fulfilment of conditions imposed - bail application allowed.
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