Inter-agency sharing under PMLA upheld where prima facie extremist-funding material justified continued investigation at early stage.

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....Inter-agency information sharing under PMLA is permitted where the Director or authorised officer forms an opinion that another law has been contravened; the communication may properly be sent to the concerned agency for action. The text rejects the view that such disclosure is confined to PMLA offences or barred by FEMA powers, treating both statutes as cognate fields to be read together. It also states that, at the investigation stage, the court looks only for prima facie material: allegations of foreign-fund withdrawals linked to extremist activity were treated as sufficient to justify continued investigation, and the FIR was not to be quashed at the incipient stage.....