<h1>Predicate Offence Collapse undermines maintenance of a PMLA prosecution, prompting notice to enforcement authorities for response.</h1> The PMLA quash application argues that acquittal on the underlying scheduled offence, upheld on appeal, defeats the prosecution's claim that the impugned funds constitute proceeds of crime, and therefore the connected PMLA FIR is unsustainable; the court has issued notice to the Enforcement Directorate and listed further hearing while a similar plea by a co-accused awaits adjudication.