https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=311107 Pre-commencement acts and charge-sheets may be relied on to establish the ingredients of a continuing organised crime offence under the special statute, because the relevant conduct is assessed as antecedent material evidencing ongoing unlawful activity rather than as separate punishment for past acts. The statute is not retrospective merely because it uses earlier charge-sheets as part of the statutory threshold, including the requirement of multiple charge-sheets within the preceding ten years and cognizance by a competent court. Earlier offences remain triable under the law then in force, and their use for this limited purpose does not violate Article 20(1). en-us Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 11 Dec 2023 17:48:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=311107 Pre-commencement acts and charge-sheets may be relied on to establish the ingredients of a continuing organised crime offence under the special statute, because the relevant conduct is assessed as antecedent material evidencing ongoing unlawful activity rather than as separate punishment for past acts. The statute is not retrospective merely because it uses earlier charge-sheets as part of the statutory threshold, including the requirement of multiple charge-sheets within the preceding ten years and cognizance by a competent court. Earlier offences remain triable under the law then in force, and their use for this limited purpose does not violate Article 20(1). Case-Laws Indian Laws Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=311107