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A ₹10 crore contract, bank account or transaction may contain genuine commercial consideration, alleged scheduled-offence proceeds, non-scheduled wrongdoing and disputed amounts. PMLA analys
Read the full analysisCan an offence committed years ago become the foundation of a PMLA prosecution after that offence is later included in the Schedule? The answer cannot be obtained from one date alone. A prop
Read the full analysisAfter Pavana Dibbur, the words “criminal conspiracy” cannot operate as a universal gateway into the Prevention of Money-Laundering Act. The critical enquiry is the object of the alleged cons
Read the full analysisSection 3 of the Prevention of Money-Laundering Act, 2002 should not be pleaded, prosecuted or defended as a single vague allegation of “money-laundering.” The statute identifies six differe
Read the full analysisThese expressions describe common search questions, not an official ranking, award, guarantee of outcome or claim of superiority. There is no single authoritative list for every ED, PMLA or
Read the full analysisThe scheduled offence generates—or is alleged to generate—the criminal property. Money-laundering under Section 3 is the separate statutory inquiry into what a person thereafter does, attemp
Read the full analysisThese expressions describe common search questions, not an official ranking, award, guarantee of outcome or claim of superiority. There is no single authoritative list for every ED, PMLA or
Read the full analysisThe High Court can intervene in a PMLA prosecution even after cognizance, rejection of discharge or framing of charge—but inherent jurisdiction is exceptional. The strongest grounds expose a
Read the full analysisA PMLA charge should not stop at saying that a “group”, “company”, “promoter family” or “associated entities” laundered money. The charge-stage record should permit an accused-specific answe
Read the full analysisA prosecution complaint does not eliminate the judicial duty to test whether the legally permissible charge-stage record creates sufficient grave suspicion that the particular accused commit
Read the full analysisFiling a prosecution complaint within the statutory custody period can defeat a default-bail claim—but the real legal question is whether the complaint was genuinely complete against the arr
Read the full analysisA person who was never made an accused by the police or investigating agency in the scheduled-offence FIR or charge-sheet may still, in an appropriate case, be prosecuted separately for mone
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