https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=451080 At the discharge or charge-framing stage under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, the court must only see whether the prosecution material discloses a prima facie case and sufficient grounds to proceed; it cannot weigh evidence as at trial. A plea that seized articles were undervalued and below the statutory threshold involved a disputed question of fact and did not by itself show the charge was groundless. Because the allegations also concerned parking proceeds of crime in bank accounts and using those proceeds to purchase properties, the court found no abuse of process and upheld the framing of charges, rejecting the challenge to discharge. en-us Fri, 15 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 19 Mar 2024 20:35:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=451080 At the discharge or charge-framing stage under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, the court must only see whether the prosecution material discloses a prima facie case and sufficient grounds to proceed; it cannot weigh evidence as at trial. A plea that seized articles were undervalued and below the statutory threshold involved a disputed question of fact and did not by itself show the charge was groundless. Because the allegations also concerned parking proceeds of crime in bank accounts and using those proceeds to purchase properties, the court found no abuse of process and upheld the framing of charges, rejecting the challenge to discharge. Case-Laws Money Laundering Fri, 15 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=451080