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Actor and producer Sachin Joshi moves Bombay High Court challenging Look Out Circular which continues to be effective against him, even after he has been discharged in a money laundering case.

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Sr Adv Abad Ponda: see the guidelines, once discharged, nothing remains against the accused and the LOC ought to be withdrawn against him.

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Adv Hiten Venegaonkar: There is a revision petition pending against the discharge. That is listed on Dec 20. This maybe heard after that.

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Court: Once a person is arrested, the LoC has to be deleted.
Today there is nothing, there was an arrest, there was bail and there is a discharge. You cannot wait in anticipation that the discharge will be reversed.

Court: It is not like he is an accused, he has been discharged, nothing remains against him.
LoC is issued against a person who is not even suspect.

Venegaonkar: I am only saying that milords have said in other matters that such applications can be made before the trial court.

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Court: Assuming the discharge order is set aside, there is an arrest and there is bail. The LoC should be cancelled. All of this is only for want of an application?

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Ponda: and when I had applied, my learned friend argued before lower court that ny client has been discharged. So he cannot have both ways.

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Court: You must advise authorities, everyday we have 2-3 such matters.

Matter posted on December 21.