Independent PMLA proceedings require separate anticipatory bail assessment; predicate-offence protection alone cannot establish pre-arrest protection.
Protection in a predicate-offence FIR does not automatically extend to independent PMLA proceedings. Anticipatory bail in a money-laundering investigation must be assessed under the applicable PMLA condition and on the material connecting the applicant to alleged proceeds of crime. Relevant considerations include the financial trail, recorded statements, bank-account analysis, compliance with summonses, cooperation with inquiry, and the need for personal participation in evidence collection and confrontation with documentary and digital material.

Predicate-offence dependency limits retrospective addition of old FIRs to preserve money-laundering proceedings after the original scheduled offence is closed.
Predicate-offence dependency under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act requires an ECIR to rest on a subsisting scheduled offence. Closure of the FIR forming its basis through an accepted cancellation report prevents continuation of money-laundering proceedings unless that closure is overturned. A previously registered FIR cannot be belatedly added merely to preserve an existing ECIR and coercive powers. Where statutory requirements are met, an independently registered ECIR may be required. Expansion of an ECIR cannot rest solely on tenuous factual links between successive disputes.

Money-laundering allegations over payments without services raise concerns about overseas transfers, identity-linked communications, and mineral smuggling.
Money-laundering allegations concern claimed payments by Cochin Minerals and Rutile Ltd. to Exalogic Solutions Pvt. Ltd., a company promoted by Veena T., without corresponding services. Searches reportedly yielded handwritten material referring to fund transfers to Dubai and digital material relating to a SIM card obtained in another person's name. Further allegations included overseas fund movement, hawala transfers, and possible thorium or monazite smuggling, all presented as allegations requiring examination.

Money laundering investigation examines alleged diversion of government contract funds and their use in creating trust and university assets.
Money-laundering investigation under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act led to searches of premises associated with the Maulana Mohammad Ali Jauhar Trust, its university, linked companies, promoters and a chartered accountant. The inquiry concerns alleged diversion of government contract funds through private contractors and their alleged subsequent use, including for creating assets of the Trust and university. Separate planning-law issues concern allegations that most university buildings were constructed without approved plans.

Independent investigation of alleged dubious transactions requires examination of all six allegations despite prior police conclusions.
Investigation into alleged dubious transactions involving Indiabulls Housing Finance Limited and related entities must cover all six allegations identified by the Enforcement Directorate. The CBI must independently examine five allegations previously reviewed by the Delhi Police Economic Offence Wing, irrespective of its conclusion, and submit a comprehensive report. Further investigation into the sixth allegation depends on the special PMLA court deciding the CBI's pending application, after which the CBI must provide a progress or status report.

Money-laundering investigation under PMLA expands through searches into alleged consultancy payments linked to CMRL and Exalogic Solutions.
Money-laundering investigation under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act involves fresh searches connected with Cochin Minerals and Rutile Ltd and Exalogic Solutions. The inquiry concerns alleged fraudulent payments made under the guise of IT consultancy services and a purported money trail involving persons allegedly connected with those transactions. The action follows earlier searches and questioning in relation to the same matter.

Recruitment examination irregularities trigger money-laundering investigation into alleged bribery, paper leaks, answer-sheet tampering, and preferential veterinary officer selections.
Money-laundering investigation under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act concerns alleged irregularities in veterinary officers' final selection through a public recruitment examination. Searches covered premises linked to commission officials, alleged intermediaries, the digital evaluation entity, and selected candidates. Allegations include bribery demands, examination-paper leakage, OMR answer-sheet tampering, and facilitation of selection for relatives of commission officials.

Insolvency professional conduct faces money-laundering allegations over re-admitted claims, creditor committee changes, and a connected resolution applicant.
Enforcement action under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act concerns allegations that an insolvency professional re-admitted claims earlier rejected as spurious and fraudulent during the Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process. The alleged re-admission altered the Committee of Creditors' composition and facilitated consideration of a resolution plan allegedly submitted for, and funded through an entity controlled by, a company promoter under investigation for diversion of bank-loan funds. Adverse findings reportedly included acting beyond authority by relying on fabricated and improperly submitted material.

Money-laundering investigation into alleged liquor-sale proceeds led to arrest and custodial questioning amid contested political allegations.
Money-laundering investigation concerning an alleged liquor scam led to the Enforcement Directorate's arrest of Ramgopal Agrawal and seven days' custodial remand under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act. The agency alleged his connection with proceeds of crime, non-attendance despite multiple summonses, and evasiveness during questioning. Allegations concern purported control of the state excise department, illegal liquor sales, and sharing of commissions. The Congress has denied the allegations and described the investigation as politically motivated.

Money laundering investigation in alleged liquor scam leads to arrest and proposed custodial-remand proceedings under anti-money-laundering law.
Money laundering investigation concerning an alleged liquor scam in Chhattisgarh led to the arrest of Congress leader Ramgopal Agrawal under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act. Custodial remand is to be sought for interrogation. The allegations concern an alleged syndicate that purportedly controlled the state excise department, enabled illegal liquor sales and distributed resulting commissions. Chargesheets name political figures, excise officials and officials associated with the Chief Minister's Office.

Money-laundering investigation into an alleged liquor scam leads to arrest and proposed custodial interrogation under the prevention law.
Money-laundering investigation under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act concerns an alleged liquor scam in Chhattisgarh. A former state political party treasurer has been arrested for alleged involvement and is to be produced before a local court for a request for custodial interrogation. The alleged scheme is stated to have involved control of the state excise department by a criminal syndicate, with multiple accused named in six chargesheets.

Money-laundering investigation targets alleged chit-fund collections, investor-fund diversion, concealed deposits, and irregular land transactions.
Money-laundering investigation into an alleged multi-state chit-fund scheme involved searches at premises linked to Wellfare Buildings and Estates Pvt Ltd and its directors, seizure of cash, vehicles, property-related records and digital devices, and freezing of bank accounts. The alleged scheme concerns unauthorised public-fund collection through land-allotment schemes, followed by closure of operations. Allegations include diversion of investor funds, manipulation of financial statements to conceal deposits, and irregular land transactions intended to suppress actual consideration and evade statutory obligations.

Video-conference statements for an approver application were declined, requiring the accused's statement to be recorded before consideration.
Special CBI Court rejected an accused's request to record her statement through video conferencing in a bank-fraud prosecution. The accused had sought to become an approver, and her statement was required to be recorded before consideration of that application. She and her husband had previously become approvers in a related money-laundering matter involving alleged fraudulent Letters of Undertaking.

Discharge in money-laundering proceedings turns on whether pre-charge material sufficiently establishes the alleged offence.
Discharge in a money-laundering prosecution was sought before a special PMLA court concerning alleged siphoning and laundering of loans advanced to Jet Airways by Canara Bank. The prosecution was directed to respond, subject to the applicant not seeking adjournment. Discharge is available after filing of a chargesheet and before framing of charges where the material before the court is insufficient to establish the alleged offence. The proceedings arise from a CBI FIR concerning alleged bank fraud involving Jet Airways and associated persons.

Summons compliance under anti-money-laundering law faces appellate scrutiny after acquittal over unproven email service allegations.
Delhi High Court required Arvind Kejriwal to reply to Enforcement Directorate petitions challenging his acquittal in proceedings concerning alleged non-compliance with summonses. The trial court found that the agency had not proved intentional disobedience, service of summons through email, or lawful issuance of electronic summons under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act. The appellate challenge concerns proof of service, validity of electronic summons, and intentional non-compliance.

Money-laundering prosecution complaints allege fund diversion through shell entities, credit-facility evergreening, layered transactions and fictitious project expenditure.
Money-laundering prosecution complaints allege that funds from toll-road projects and credit facilities were diverted through group companies, contractors, shell entities and conduit accounts. In the toll-road matter, allegedly sham or back-dated subcontracting arrangements and subsequent documentation were used to portray transfers as genuine project expenditure. In the credit-facilities matter, fresh facilities were allegedly used to repay, rotate and evergreen earlier liabilities rather than for sanctioned end-use, with funds layered and presented as legitimate business expenditure or receipts. Attached assets are sought to be confiscated as alleged proceeds of crime.

Money-laundering investigation examines alleged proceeds from chit fund operations following searches linked to a former company managing director.
A money-laundering investigation concerns alleged proceeds of crime arising from a multi-state chit fund operation associated with Welfare Building and Estates Pvt Ltd. The company is alleged to have collected investor deposits through investment schemes promising high returns before defaulting. Searches at premises linked to its former managing director form part of the inquiry into alleged laundering. The underlying alleged fraud had previously resulted in a CBI case and multiple police FIRs.

Money-laundering investigation examines alleged fraudulent industrial plot allotments, benami holdings and diversion of plots to residential use.
A money-laundering investigation under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act examines alleged irregularities in industrial-plot allotments involving corporation officials, private persons, property dealers and alleged benamidars. The inquiry concerns alleged use of fictitious firms and false addresses to obtain plots, allotments to relatives and associates, and alleged diversion or change of land use from industrial to residential purposes. These activities are alleged to have generated private gains while causing loss to the public exchequer.

Money-laundering proceedings face challenge over absent predicate offence, alleged lack of criminal intent, and treatment of related FIRs.
Money-laundering proceedings linked to alleged diversion of homebuyer funds are challenged on the ground that no scheduled offence or criminal intent is attributable to the petitioner. The petitioner relies on his asserted exoneration in two predicate FIRs, where charge sheets did not name him, and settlement of the remaining FIR. Notice was issued for a response and status report, and the petitioner undertook to cooperate with the investigation.

Money laundering asset attachment targets overseas bank deposits linked to alleged loan fraud and fugitive economic offenders.
Provisional attachment under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act was reported against Singapore bank deposits held by a company promoter and associated entities in an alleged loan-fraud and money-laundering investigation. The underlying case arises from allegations of fraud, criminal misappropriation, criminal breach of trust and cheating affecting a consortium of lending banks. Service of the attachment order was reported through mutual legal-assistance arrangements, and the promoters had reportedly been declared fugitive economic offenders.