https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=297044 Proceedings under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 are treated as independent of the scheduled offence, and the Special Court is not bound to defer the money-laundering case until charges in the predicate offence are heard first. The court also held that the 2019 clarifications to Sections 2(1)(u), 3 and 44(1)(d) support separate prosecution rather than a joint trial. A memo could not validly alter the original prayer from sequential hearing to simultaneous hearing, because that would fundamentally change the relief sought and was impermissible under Section 362 CrPC. The request for a different hearing sequence was therefore rejected. en-us Mon, 11 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 16 Aug 2021 21:16:36 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=297044 Proceedings under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 are treated as independent of the scheduled offence, and the Special Court is not bound to defer the money-laundering case until charges in the predicate offence are heard first. The court also held that the 2019 clarifications to Sections 2(1)(u), 3 and 44(1)(d) support separate prosecution rather than a joint trial. A memo could not validly alter the original prayer from sequential hearing to simultaneous hearing, because that would fundamentally change the relief sought and was impermissible under Section 362 CrPC. The request for a different hearing sequence was therefore rejected. Case-Laws Money Laundering Mon, 11 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=297044