The Supreme Court docket on Thursday issued discover on a petition filed by Congress MP Karti P Chidambaram, searching for evaluation of its choice on Prevention of Cash Laundering Act, 2002, upholding the facility of arrest, attachment and search and seizure conferred on the Enforcement Directorate.
A bench headed by Chief Justice N V Ramana noticed that prima facie, two features of the judgment upholding the provisions of the Prevention of Cash Laundering Act (PMLA) require to be reconsidered: (i) relating to no authorized requirement to offer ECIR copy to the accused and (ii) the reversal of presumption of innocence.
The decision had upheld the facility of arrest, attachment and search and seizure conferred on the Enforcement Directorate by the Prevention of Cash Laundering Act, 2002. The judgment was delivered by a 3-judge bench comprising
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