What to Do If the ED Contacts You: A Step-by-Step Survival Guide

What to do if the ED contacts you — a step-by-step guide to ED notices, summons and raids and your rights

A call, a notice, a summons, or officers at your door — being contacted by the Enforcement Directorate is frightening. What you do in the first hours can shape the entire case. This practical, plain-language guide explains exactly what to do if the ED contacts you: your rights, the right first steps, the mistakes that hurt people most, and when to bring in a lawyer. Written from experience handling ED and PMLA matters.

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

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.

Received an ED Summons Under Section 50 PMLA? Rights, Duties, and How to Respond – A Practitioner’s Guide

Responding to an ED summons under Section 50 PMLA — rights, duties, anticipatory bail and practical strategy

An ED summons under Section 50 PMLA lands like a thunderbolt. Should you appear? Can you be arrested? Should you rush for anticipatory bail? Drawing from my experience in PMLA matters, this guide answers every practical question — your duties, your rights, the law laid down in Vijay Madanlal, Abhishek Banerjee, Prem Prakash, and Tarsem Lal (with links to the judgments), and the precautions and strategies that actually work before, during, and after the appearance.

Introduction to Money Laundering, PMLA and ED Law in India: A Complete Guide

Introduction to PMLA and ED law in India — money laundering, ECIR, arrest, attachment and bail explained

The Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 arms the Enforcement Directorate with extraordinary powers — to summon, search, attach, and arrest. This cornerstone guide introduces PMLA and ED law in India in plain language. It explains the offence of money laundering under Section 3, proceeds of crime and scheduled offences, the ECIR, arrest safeguards under Section 19, attachment and confiscation, the Section 45 twin conditions for bail, and trial before Special Courts. Every concept is backed by verified Supreme Court rulings — from Vijay Madanlal Choudhary and Pankaj Bansal to Tarsem Lal and Manish Sisodia — making this the starting point of our complete PMLA series.