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3. On 15.10.2020, one Ramesh Iyer filed a complaint before the Metropolitan Magistrate, 16th Court, Ballard Pier, Mumbai vide Court Case No.39/Misc/2020 against eight accused including the present applicant. In that complaint, the learned Magistrate had passed an order under Section 156(3) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (for short, 'Cr.P.C.') and had directed the Yellow Gate Police Station to investigate into those allegations. Pursuant to that order, the FIR vide MECR No.3/2020 was lodged at Yellow Gate police station, Mumbai on 28.10.2020 for commission of offence punishable under Sections 420, 406, 465, 467, 468, 471 and 120-B of IPC. The proforma mentions that the period of the offence was between the year 2008 to year 2020.

The MMRDA was submitted bills for many more guards. Those many guards were not actually deployed. Thus, there was undue monetary advantage gained by the Topsgrup. Out of this illegal profit, 50% of the profit was given to the accused Amit Chandole, in addition to commission of Rs.50,000/- per month and Rs.500/- per guard which was paid to him. As per the details provided by Ramesh Iyer; from May 2017 till June 2020, Rs.2.36 Crores were shared as a commission. Out of that Rs.90 Lakhs were paid through bank transfers to Amit Chandole and one Sanket More. Since 2014 the commission of Rs.7 Crores was paid to Amit Chandole.

(ii) On 15.9.2020, the applicant had given a written complaint to Khar police station at the behest of Rahul Nanda and, therefore, to seek revenge against him, the first informant

8 of 30 :9: ba-1046-21.odt Ramesh Iyer has falsely implicated the present applicant. The informant Ramesh Iyer himself was occupying a very high position and all the decisions were taken by Ramesh Iyer and Rahul Nanda.

(iii) According to Ramesh Iyer, the illegalities were committed by these companies and he had knowledge about those for many years. His silence over all these years is unexplained.

(iv) The contents of ECIR are almost similar to the registered FIR i.e. MECR No.3/2020 registered at Yellow Gate police station, Mumbai; and there was no special reason to invoke PMLA. Ramesh Iyer was terminated vide letter dated 15.10.2020 and, therefore, immediately he had lodged complaint against the company. That termination letter was issued under the signature of the present applicant and, therefore, the applicant is also roped in as an accused.