Supreme Court of India

Ram Kishor Arora v. Directorate of Enforcement

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Reported as [2023] 16 S.C.R. 743
Bench Bela M. Trivedi and Satish Chandra Sharma JJ.
Decided 15 December 2023

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What the Court ordered

We hold that there was due compliance of the provisions contained in Section 19 of PMLA and his arrest could ne ither be said to be violative of the said provision nor of Article 2 2(1) of the Constitution of India.

Judgment, page 22

From the headnote

Issue for consideration: Whether the action of the respondent ED in handing over the document containing the grounds of the arrest to arrestee and taking it back after obtaining the endorsement and his signature thereon, as a token of he having read the same, and in not furnishing a copy thereof to the arrestee at the time of arrest would render the arrest illegal u/s. 19 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002. Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 – High Cou rt dismissed the petition seeking declaration that the arrest of the appellant on 27.06.2023 by the respondent Directorate

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 2 referred to

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