Are provisions of the PMLA violative of Article 20(3) of the Constitution? Aditya Mehta talks to Aabad Ponda, Senior Advocate, who argued
On September 19th, 2022, a 3-judge bench of the Supreme Court referred certain issues of death penalty sentencing to a larger constitutional
By stating that sex workers’ right to dignity is protected under Article 21 irrespective of their occupation, the Court has made the
Apart from the specific concerns the Supreme Court's recent judgment on the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 raises, there are broader
One of the issues raised before the Court by the Petitioners was that the officers of the Enforcement Directorate [“ED”] were “police
The right to presumed innocence has not been given the status of a fundamental right in the Indian legal system. Yet, its
In the last ten years, the ED has recorded almost 5500 cases under the Act and more than Rs. 1,00,000 crores worth
The law and the criminal justice system, we are told, is logical and dispassionate. There is no space in it for the
On 27 July 2022, the three-judge bench headed by J. Khanwilkar upheld the constitutional validity of various provisions of the Prevention of
In the last ten years, the ED has recorded almost 5500 cases under the Act and more than Rs. 1,00,000 crores worth