The Court also asked the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to respond to the plea filed by Santiago Martin to halt the PMLA trial against him until the completion of the trial in a CBI case against him.
The Court said that when a citizen approaches NGT with a grievance, a different approach by the NGT is contemplated and it is not required to strictly apply the yardsticks provided under the Code of Civil Procedure.
The Supreme Court ruled that for a money-laundering case to be initiated on allegations of a criminal conspiracy, the conspiracy has to be tied to a money-laundering offence included in the scheduled offences under PMLA.