[Esha Rathi is a final year B.B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) student at Jindal Global Law School] Section 19 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act 2002 (PMLA) empowers authorized officials of the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) to arrest persons based on the material in their possession, providing a reasonable basis to suspect that an individual has committed an offence punishable under the law. It...
Compounding under Section 24A of SEBI Act: Charting A New Course
[Navya Saxena and Aadya Bansal are 4th-year B.A., LL.B. (Hons.) students at National Law Institute University, Bhopal] In Prakash Gupta v. Securities and Exchange Board of India (26 July 2021), the Supreme Court has addressed the question of whether the Securities and Exchange Board of India (“SEBI”) has veto power over compounding of offences under the Securities and Exchange Board of India Act...
Supreme Court Widens Scope of Moratorium on Criminal Proceedings
[Prachi Gupta is a fourth-year B.A., LL.B. (Hons.) student at the Institute of Law, Nirma University] On 1 March 2021, the Supreme Court in the case of P. Mohanraj v. Shah Brothers Ispat Pvt. Ltd. has put an end to a much-debated topic of applicability of moratorium under section 14 of Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (“IBC”) to proceedings of dishonour of cheque under section 138 of...
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