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New Delhi: The central government and Enforcement Directorate (ED) Wednesday opposed a set of petitions that seek to reconsider the top courts July 2022 judgment that upheld the stringent provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) a law giving the agency sweeping investigative powers...
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta and Additional Solicitor General (ASG) S.V. Raju, who represented the central government and the investigation agency, questioned the maintainability of these petitions listed before a three-judge bench led by Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul, labelling them an abuse of the process of law and urging the Supreme Court to be alert and alarmed...
The court was hearing petitions seeking reconsideration of its 27 July, 2022, three-judge bench judgment on certain parameters...
The second premise on which the law officers vehemently argued against the petitions is that they question the correctness of the SCs July 2022 ruling, which they argued cannot be done through the filing of a fresh writ petition like in the present case.. Can this bench sit in appeal over another coordinate bench?.
Although most of these were filed before the Vijay Madanlal Choudhary judgment was pronounced, the court kept them in abeyance in view of the three-judge bench looking into the questions raised over the constitutional validity of the PMLA...
