2021 (2) TMI 1295

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....te for the Petitioners. ORDER Petitioner No. 1 is a Company engaged in the business of real estate, and petitioner No. 2 - Mr. Ravinder Taneja is one of the Directors and looking after the affairs of the petitioner No. 1-Company. Petitioner No. 2 and petitioner No. 1-Company are alleged to have been involved in purchase of notified land for acquisition under Section 4 of the Land Acquisition....

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....omplaint - ECIR dated 24.09.2015. Challenge in the present writ petition is to the vires of Explanation (i) to Section 3 and Explanation (ii) after Clause (d) in sub- Section (1) of Section 44 of the PMLA, 2002, inserted / amended in terms of Section 193 of the Finance Act (No. 2) 2019 w.e.f. 01.06.2019; further challenge is to the supplementary complaint dated 05.06.2020 (Annexure P-1) and the....

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....tute / PMLA cannot be applied retrospectively. To support the plea, reliance has been placed of a judgment of the learned Single Judge of the Hon'ble Andhra Pradesh High Court in a identical situation under the PMLA, 2002, reported as "Tech Mahindra Limited Versus Joint Director, Directorate of Enforcement, Hyderabad and Ors.", MANU/AP/2921/2014. The SLP qua the cited judgment is stated to hav....