Continuing money-laundering doctrine sustains provisional attachment where proceeds of crime are dealt with after predicate offence.

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....Money-laundering under the PMLA was treated as a continuing activity; the relevant date is when a person engages in or continues dealing with proceeds of crime, not merely the date of the predicate offence. On the facts, the appellant continued to derive benefit from unauthorized construction and related transactions, the ECIR was recorded when the scheduled-offence requirement stood attracted, and the ECIR had not been quashed. The Article 20(1) challenge and the plea based on absence of scheduled-offence status at the initial point of time were rejected, and confirmation of provisional attachment was upheld, with the appeal dismissed.....