CUTTACK, India, April 6 -- Orissa High Court issued the following order on March 5:

1. Since these five bail applications arise out of one and same case record, the same are heard together and disposed of by this common order with the consent of the learned counsel for the parties. 5

2. These five bail applications are U/S.483 of BNSS by the petitioners for grant of bail in connection with Economic Offence PS Case No.17 of 2025 arising out of GR Case No.1757 of 2025 for commission of offences punishable U/Ss. 318(4)/319(2) of BNS r/w Section 66(D) of the IT Act pending in the Court of learned SDJM, Angul.

3. The gist of the allegation as found out from the FIR is that the complainant was duped with a sum of Rs. 52,26,000/- by way of cyber fraud and he had deposited the aforesaid sum of money in five different current accounts on the allurement of getting high returns, but the complainant had also deposited an amount of Rs. 11,00,000/- & Rs. 10,00,000/- in SRP traders account, but subsequently, a sum of Rs. 2,00,000/- was transferred to the account of DBL foundation standing in the joint account of the Petitioners Dillip Kumar Lenka & Bijaya Kumar Jena. It is also found from the record that the Petitioner Chittaranjan Muduli had mediated between the Petitioners Dillip Kumar Lenka & Bijay Kumar Jena, and Krupasindhu Maharana, but Krupasinndhu Maharana was instigating them to open current accounts in different Banks in order to facilitate transfer of fraud money on payment of certain commission and accordingly, Dillip Kumar Lenka had opened a joint account with the Petitioner Bijaya Kumar Jena in the name of DBL foundation in Axis Bank and this is the circumstance under which the present Petitioners were implicated in this case and taken into custody and thereby, they are before this Court in these bail applications.

4. Heard, Mr. Smruti Ranjan Rout, learned counsel for the Petitioners in BLAPL Nos. 11282, 11435 & 11942 of 2025; Mr. Pratik Dash, learned counsel for the Petitioner in BLAPL No. 11577 of 2025; Mr. Rakesh Behera, learned counsel for the Petitioner in BLAPL No. 11698 of 2025 and Mr. M.R. Patra, learned Addl. PP in the matter and perused the record.

*Rest of the document can be viewed at: (https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/ecourtindiaHC/cases/display_pdf.php?filename=A9S7c5LDIsB6RXaCf816x26EgEQg115Pbi3O11kDTFP%2B6TOUelry%2FEZCFgSvCkU4&caseno=BLAPL/11577/2025&cCode=1&cino=ODHC010787712025&state_code=11&appFlag=)

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