MUMBAI, July 29 -- The Bombay High Court has quashed the Enforcement Directorate's (ED) money laundering case against DB Realty and its promoter, Vinod Goenka, in the Maharashtra Sadan money laundering case. Justice Ashwin D Bhobe quashed the PMLA (Prevention of Money Laundering Act) proceedings against Goenka and DB Realty, setting aside the special PMLA Court's April 27, 2016, order issuing process and its May 14, 2019, order rejecting their discharge pleas. The ED case arose from alleged irregularities in the awarding of contracts for the construction of Maharashtra Sadan in New Delhi, a Regional Transport Office building in Andheri, and a state guest house at Malabar Hill, during Chhagan Bhujbal's tenure as Maharashtra's public works department minister. The ED had alleged that contractors paid kickbacks to firms linked to Bhujbal and his family, which were laundered through financial transactions. It named Sanjay Goenka, DB Realty and others, alleging they knowingly dealt with the proceeds of crime. In DB Realty's case, the agency claimed its Rs.5 crore payment to Parvesh Construction Pvt Ltd, later refunded, was a sham transaction to launder money. The petitioners argued they were not accused in the scheduled offences and that the PMLA case had collapsed after Parvesh Construction was discharged. Justice Bhobe held that since Parvesh Construction had been cleared on the finding that no proceeds of crime existed, the money laundering case against those alleged only to have dealt with those funds could not be sustained....