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A lawful arrest does not necessarily justify continued imprisonment until an uncertain trial concludes. This distinction lies at the heart of the Supreme Court’s judgment in Sanjay Sureka @ Sanjay Kumar Sureka v. Directorate of Enforcement, 2026 INSC 1124, dec…
In Y. Balaji v. Karthik Desari, decided on 16 May 2023, the Supreme Court held that taking bribe money involves acquiring proceeds of crime: a separat…
An Enforcement Case Information Report may accommodate more than one scheduled offence in an appropriate case. But can the Enforcement Directorate pre…
Lawyers, chartered accountants, company secretaries, consultants, brokers and financial advisers regularly work on transactions that later attract inv…
The Delhi High Court’s decision in Rohit Vij v Directorate of Enforcement, BAIL APPLN. 4461/2025, dated 10 August 2026, raises a question of exception…
Indian banks occupy two legally distinct positions under the Prevention of Money-Laundering Act, 2002. They are reporting entities required to identif…
On 2 September 2026, the Supreme Court declined to interfere with the Madras High Court’s decision granting bail to Jaffer Sadiq and Mohamed Saleem in…
When the Predicate Offence Ends: Supreme Court and Delhi High Court Decisions Quashing ECIRs and Consequential PMLA Proceedings The Prevention of Mone…
Are PMLA Search, Seizure and Freezing Measures Open to Criminal-Writ Review? Karnataka High Court’s Gameskraft Ruling The Karnataka High Court has hel…
Can an ECIR Be Challenged in a Writ Petition? Karnataka High Court’s Gameskraft Maintainability Ruling The Karnataka High Court has rejected the propo…
Who Can Be Summoned under Section 50 PMLA? Karnataka High Court Clarifies the Reach and Limits of ED’s Power The Karnataka High Court has held that th…
Does Protection in a Predicate FIR Extend to PMLA Proceedings? Delhi High Court’s Ram Singh Decision Interim protection from arrest in a predicate-off…
Written Grounds of Arrest under PMLA: The Law after Pankaj Bansal, Ram Kishor Arora and Mihir Rajesh Shah An arrest under the Prevention of Money-Laun…
PMLA Arrest, Search, Remand and Defence Rights: The Punjab and Haryana High Court's Procedural Safeguards The Prevention of Money-laundering Act, 2002…
The Supreme Court granted bail to a person prosecuted under the Prevention of Money-laundering Act, 2002 after finding that only one of 225 cited witn…
The Supreme Court has clarified that an order confirming attachment, retention or freezing under Section 8(3) of the Prevention of Money-laundering Ac…
The replacement of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 by the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 created an immediate interpretive question for special statutes th…
Which Special Court Should Try Connected PC Act and PMLA Cases? Madras High Court Applies the Dual-Designation Solution When a corruption prosecution …