SC agrees to listing plea searching for evaluation of PMLA judgment
By PTI
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to listing a plea searching for evaluation of its order upholding the Enforcement Directorate’s powers associated to arrest, attachment of property concerned in cash laundering, search and seizure below the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.
“Okay, we will list it,” a bench headed by Chief Justice N V Ramana stated after the plea was talked about earlier than it.
It is widespread expertise the world over that cash laundering generally is a “threat” to the great functioning of a monetary system, the apex courtroom had noticed on July 27 whereas upholding the validity of sure provisions of the PMLA. It underlined that this isn’t an “ordinary offence”.
The Centre has been insisting cash laundering is an offence that’s dedicated not solely by unscrupulous businessmen but in addition terror organisations, posing a grave risk to nationwide safety.
A bench headed by Justice A M Khanwilkar had stated authorities below the 2002 Act are “not police officers as such” and the Enforcement Case Information Report (ECIR) can’t be equated with an FIR below the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC).
The bench had stated provide of an ECIR copy in each case to the particular person involved shouldn’t be obligatory and it’s sufficient if the ED, on the time of arrest, discloses the grounds of such an arrest.
The petitioners within the case had raised the problem of the contents of ECIR not being disclosed to the accused.
The courtroom’s judgement got here on a clutch of over 200 petitions filed by people and different entities questioning varied provisions of the PMLA, a regulation which the opposition has usually claimed has been weaponised by the federal government to harass its political adversaries.
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to listing a plea searching for evaluation of its order upholding the Enforcement Directorate’s powers associated to arrest, attachment of property concerned in cash laundering, search and seizure below the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.
“Okay, we will list it,” a bench headed by Chief Justice N V Ramana stated after the plea was talked about earlier than it.
It is widespread expertise the world over that cash laundering generally is a “threat” to the great functioning of a monetary system, the apex courtroom had noticed on July 27 whereas upholding the validity of sure provisions of the PMLA. It underlined that this isn’t an “ordinary offence”.
The Centre has been insisting cash laundering is an offence that’s dedicated not solely by unscrupulous businessmen but in addition terror organisations, posing a grave risk to nationwide safety.
A bench headed by Justice A M Khanwilkar had stated authorities below the 2002 Act are “not police officers as such” and the Enforcement Case Information Report (ECIR) can’t be equated with an FIR below the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC).
The bench had stated provide of an ECIR copy in each case to the particular person involved shouldn’t be obligatory and it’s sufficient if the ED, on the time of arrest, discloses the grounds of such an arrest.
The petitioners within the case had raised the problem of the contents of ECIR not being disclosed to the accused.
The courtroom’s judgement got here on a clutch of over 200 petitions filed by people and different entities questioning varied provisions of the PMLA, a regulation which the opposition has usually claimed has been weaponised by the federal government to harass its political adversaries.
