Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC-LKO:26596-DB Court No. - 10 Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. - 3887 of 2025 Petitioner :- Mussadiq Mohammad Respondent :- Joint Director Of Directorate Of Enforsement Zonal Officer Lko And Another Counsel for Petitioner :- Lovelesh Awasthi,Pramod Kumar Tiwari,Sri Pati Tripathi Counsel for Respondent :- Kuldeep Srivastava Hon'ble Vivek Chaudhary,J. Hon'ble Brij Raj Singh,J. 1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner, and Ms. Abhedya Rajeev, Advocate holding brief of Shri Kuldeep Srivastava, learned counsel appearing for the respondent-Enforcement Directorate and perused the material available on record. 2. The petitioner has approached this Court for the following main prayer: "i. Issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of Mandamus commanding to the learned court below having jurisdiction/authority concerned to consider the case of petitioner in light of direction (order dated 01.07.02024) passed by the Hon'ble Court at Allahabad in CRLP No.20172/2023 "Prakash Chandra Tiwari Vs Union of India & Others" as well as order dated 18.02.2025 passed by this Hon'ble Court in CRLP No.1412/2025 "Babita Sahu Vs State of U.P. & Others" contained as Annexure No.4 to this writ petition, in the interest of Justice." 3. Submission of learned counsel for the petitioner is that the petitioner is entitled for return of his money which was deposited with the Shine City Infra Project Limited, now under Prevention of Money Laundering Act, investigation and prosecution for which the case is pending before the Special Court of Anti Corruption C.B.I. (West), Lucknow. Counsel for petitioner further submits that petitioner wants to file his claim before the said court which may be directed to be considered and decided in accordance with law. 4. Learned counsel appearing for the Enforcement Directorate submits that there is a stay order granted by the Supreme Court on 24.02.2025 in Special Leave Petition (Criminal) Diary No.5578 of 2025 with regard to the orders arising out of writ petition(s) filed at Allahabad and the court concerned has to take the same into consideration while considering any claim. He further states that there is no dispute that petitioner can file his claim before the court concerned which is to be considered by the court concerned in accordance with law. It goes without saying that the court concerned shall also take into consideration any order passed by the Supreme Court or by any other Court with regard to the said matter. 5. With the aforesaid, present writ petition stands disposed of permitting the petitioner to raise his claim before the Special Court of Anti Corruption C.B.I. (West), Lucknow in accordance with law, which shall consider and decide the same after hearing all parties concerned, in accordance with law, as observed above. . [Brij Raj Singh,J.] [Vivek Chaudhary,J.] Order Date :- 7.5.2025 Sachin Digitally signed by :- SACHIN MEHROTRA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench