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PMLA Case Laws Digest: 50+ Landmark Supreme Court and High Court Judgments on Money Laundering

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PMLA case laws digest — landmark Supreme Court and High Court judgments on money laundering, arrest, attachment and bail

A single, verified reference for the case law that governs every PMLA matter. This digest collects 50+ landmark Supreme Court and High Court judgments — each with the case name, brief facts, the sections involved, and the ratio laid down — organised by theme, from the constitutional foundation in Vijay Madanlal Choudhary to the arrest safeguards of Pankaj Bansal and Arvind Kejriwal, the bail jurisprudence of Manish Sisodia, and the disclosure and cognizance rulings of Sarla Gupta and Kushal Kumar Agarwal. Citations and ratios cross-checked against primary sources.

ECIR Explained: ECIR vs FIR, Can You Get a Copy, and Can It Be Quashed? A Practitioner’s Guide

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ECIR under PMLA explained — ECIR vs FIR, right to a copy, and quashing of ECIR by High Courts

Every ED case begins with a mysterious document — the ECIR. Clients ask me the same three questions: What is it? Can I get a copy? Can it be quashed? The answers are counter-intuitive. The ECIR is not an FIR. You have no absolute right to see it. Yet courts do terminate ECIR-based proceedings — most decisively when the predicate offence collapses. This guide explains the law, the strategy, and the correct prayer to make, with verified judgments from Vijay Madanlal and Parvathi Kollur to the latest High Court rulings.