Criminal Procedure Code, 1973
Section 438—Availability of remedy—Money laundering case—Prayer seeking no-coercive steps upon issuance of summons under 50 of Prevention of Money Laundering Act—While declining to grant such a relief, the High Court held that since the remedy under Section 438 of CrPC i.e. anticipatory bail was available to the petitioner in case he apprehended any arrest in the ECIR, the question of granting any interim relief of no-coercive steps did not arise. [Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002, Section 50]
[Paras 37 to 40]
Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002
Section 19—Power to arrest—Power of arrest under Section 19 of the the Prevention of Money Laundering Act is not untrammeled—Authorities do not have the power to arrest on their whims and fancies—Requirements must be complied with before arresting a person—Enumerated.
[Paras 41 & 42]
Section 50—Powers of authorities regarding summons, production of documents and to give evidence, etc.—Whether include power to arrest—Power to arrest is conspicuously absent in Section 50 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.
[Para 24]