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Solicitor General Tushar Mehta on Wednesday made submission before the Supreme Court on the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). He said under Section 19 of PMLA, the arguments regarding an offence being cognisable or non-cognisable, were redundant

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Solicitor General Tushar Mehta on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that what all crimes come under the ambit of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.

Senior Advocate Maneka Guruswamy told the Supreme Court that under the current regime of the PMLA, the process itself is the punishment while arguing on behalf of the accused under the PMLA.

Senior Advocate S. Niranjan Reddy has submitted before the Supreme Court that ideally the investigation by the Enforcement Directorate should commence after the registration of the FIR but if necessary, it can proceed prior to it.

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The Delhi High Court, on Monday, sought response from the Central Bureau of Investigation upon a plea by a Hyderabad-based businessman seeking quashing of an FIR registered against him in an alleged money laundering case involving him and meat exporter Moin Akhtar Qureshi among others, while directing the CBI to not take any coercive action against the petitioner till next date of hearing.

The Delhi High Court has set aside orders passed by the Adjudicating Authority under Section 8 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) whereby bank accounts of 66 companies were frozen, upon a "request for legal assistance" from the Office of the Prosecutor General, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.