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TMI Blog2022 (8) TMI 1329X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... r. Phiroze Edulji, Ms. Anamika Pandey, Ms. Amrita Pandey, Mr. Ghanshyam Pandey, for the E.D. ORDER The petitioner seeks appropriate relief with regard to a summons issued to the petitioner under Sections 50 (2) and (3) of the PMLA, 2002. The petitioner has been asked by the Directorate of Enforcement to report in Delhi on 05.06.2022 at 10:30 a.m. for the purpose of an on-going investigation [se ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... titioner cannot take the benefit of Section 160 of The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, which provides for certain relaxations in the matter of the power of a police officer to require attendance of witnesses particularly where the witness is a woman. Counsel relies on Sections 65 and 71 of the PMLA, 2002 to submit that the PMLA would have overriding effect in respect of all other laws for the ti ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... office in Kolkata for being used in the ongoing proceedings. The view of the Court is strengthened by a reasoned order passed by the Supreme Court in a challenge by the E.D. from an order of the Delhi High Court which directed the two other persons falling under the same ECIR and the petitioner to appear before the E.D., Delhi for questioning. A three Judge Bench of the Supreme Court by its order ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... case since the petitioner therein had prayed for quashing of the proceedings. Hence, an interim measure of protection, the Enforcement Directorate is directed to question the petitioner at its zonal office at Kolkata in September or whenever the petitioner is summoned by the E.D. Since learned counsel appearing for the E.D. seeks to file affidavits, affidavit-in-opposition be filed within three ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... -2: "The case sought to be made out by the petitioner is that two other persons who are being interrogated in the same ECIR have recently............." In the 6th paragraph at page -3: ".......... Supreme Court in a challenge by Abhishek Banerjee and Rujira Banerjee of the Delhi High Court which directed the two other persons being interrogated under the same ECIR............" In the 7th ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X
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