The Court held that a scheduled offence is the very foundation of the offence of money laundering and once a person is acquitted of the scheduled offence, the very foundation gets knocked out.
The Punjab & Haryana High Court has taken a stern stand on evasion of arrest, observing that attachment of property is a critical tool to ensure the presence of the accused during trial and also.
The Kerala High Court recently reiterated that the purpose of attachment of a property would come to an end when the absconder to whom the property belongs, surrenders before the Court. It added that.
The Delhi High Court has observed that the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002, does not postulate a separate “reason to believe” for each property which stands attached under the provisional.
A Kerala Court has ordered conditional attachment of a Police Sub-Inspector s property for prima facie custodial torture of a Kollam based lawyer.Sub Judge Santhosh Das at Karunagapally has also asked.