https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=785644 Money-laundering under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 cannot be sustained without property constituting proceeds of crime derived from a subsisting scheduled offence. Because the predicate cases had ended in discharge, no prima facie offence survived in the underlying criminal matters, and the attachment orders had also been set aside, the Court treated the foundation of the PMLA complaint as extinguished. On that basis, it held that the prosecution could not continue and that the accused applicants were entitled to discharge at the charge stage. en-us Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0530 Thu, 29 Jan 2026 09:51:27 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=785644 Money-laundering under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 cannot be sustained without property constituting proceeds of crime derived from a subsisting scheduled offence. Because the predicate cases had ended in discharge, no prima facie offence survived in the underlying criminal matters, and the attachment orders had also been set aside, the Court treated the foundation of the PMLA complaint as extinguished. On that basis, it held that the prosecution could not continue and that the accused applicants were entitled to discharge at the charge stage. Case-Laws Money Laundering Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=785644