Look-out Circulars in Money Laundering Cases: Valid Only with Active Criminal Complaints or Inquiries Under PMLA.

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....Money Laundering - Validity of look out circular - No action under PMLA can be resorted to unless there is a substratum of a scheduled offence for the same, which substratum should legally exist in the form of a subsisting (not quashed) criminal complaint/inquiry or if it did exist the accused has since been discharged or acquitted by a Court of competent jurisdiction. - HC....