Petitioners Face Trial Under ULA(P) Act and RPC Section 121-A; PMLA Prosecution Stands Valid After 2009 Amendment. (P)Act.

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....Money Laundering - Scheduled offences - The petitioners besides facing trial for the offences under ULA(P) Act, are also facing trial for offence under Section 121-A of RPC. The offence under Section 121-A of IPC, which is in pari materia with Section 121-A of the RPC, was a scheduled offence even prior to the Amendment Act of 2009. On this ground also, the petitioners cannot claim that they could not have been prosecuted for offence under Section 3 of the PMLA. - HC....