Supreme Court · 2024 INSC 843 · Decided 6 November 2024
Directorate of Enforcement v. Bibhu Prasad Acharya, ETC.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2024 INSC 843 · [2024] 11 S.C.R. 510
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 4314/2024
- Decided
- 6 November 2024
- Bench
- ABHAY S. OKA, AUGUSTINE GEORGE MASIH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC Section 197, 197(1); Prevention of Money Laundering Act Section 44(1)(b), 3, 4, 65, 71, 71(1), 197
Headnote
The appellant filed complaints against the respondents and others u/s.44(1)(b) of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002. The Special Court took cognizance of the complaints and issued summons to the respondents and other accused persons. However, that it was necessary to obtain prior sanction under sub-section (1) of s.197 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 and quashed the orders of taking cognizance passed by the Special Court on the complaints only as against the said respondents. Prevention of Money Laundering
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