Territorial Jurisdiction in Money Laundering Cases: Factual Disputes Require Special Court, Not Writ Petition, u/s 3.

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....Money Laundering - scheduled/predicate offence - territorial jurisdiction of Trial Courts - The issue of territorial jurisdiction cannot be decided in a writ petition, especially when there is a serious factual dispute about the place/places of commission of the offence. Hence, this question should be raised by the petitioner before the Special Court, since an answer to the same would depend upon evidence as to the places where any one or more of the processes or activities mentioned in Section 3 were carried out. - SC....