<h1>National Herald case: challenge to trial court refusal to take cognisance of ED chargesheet over FIR requirement.</h1> The ED challenges a trial court order refusing to take cognisance of its PMLA chargesheet because the prosecution was not founded on an FIR; the trial court held money laundering prosecution stemming from a private complaint is not maintainable and treated cognisance as a legal threshold, prompting the High Court to issue notice and consider stay relief.