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Jul 27, 2022 • 8 tweets • 5 min read
Subject to reading the full judgment, here's a quick explainer of the SC's pronouncement:
1. To constitute money laundering, mere possession or use of proceeds of crime w/o projecting it as untainted is an offence. #PMLA#PMLAExplained2. The inclusion of a wide list of predicate offences under PMLA, covering variety of crimes, from IPC to Copyright violations, is prerogative of the legislature.
PMLA Judgment by Sup Ct (bench headed by J Khanwilkar): The question is to whether some of the amendments in 2019 could not have been enacted by way of Money Bill has not been examined in this judgment
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PMLA Judgment by Sup Ct (bench headed by J Khanwilkar): S 3 has a wide reach, capturing every activity indirectly or directly related to money laundering, and is not related merely to the final act of laundering the money.
Here is a reminder about the urgent need to end the cruel and inhumane practice of death penalty in India. A video illustration inspired by our Death Penalty India Report.
This World Day Against the Death Penalty, we're happy to release an abridged version of the Death Penalty India Report in Hindi. It documents the socio economic profiles of all death row prisoners in India & their interaction with the crl. justice system drive.google.com/file/d/1EiibJB…
The report demonstrated a disparate impact of the death penalty on the most marginalised. 76% of India's prisoners sentenced to death belonged to marginalised socio-economic background. #WorldDayAgainstDeathPenalty#DeathPenalty