Expertise
White Collar Crime
Economic offences and money-laundering proceedings, from the first summons or search through attachment, bail, trial and appeal.
The chamber acts for individuals and companies who are the subject of an investigation or a prosecution for an economic offence. The work spans the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 in all its stages: the summons and statement, the provisional attachment of property and its confirmation before the Adjudicating Authority, the appeal to the Appellate Tribunal, arrest and bail, the prosecution complaint and the trial before the Special Court. It also covers the predicate offences under the Indian Penal Code, the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and the special statutes that sit beneath a laundering case.
It also covers proceedings under the Prohibition of Benami Property Transactions Act, 1988, cases of fraud and cyber-fraud including the tracing and recovery of diverted funds, and the quashing of first information reports and complaints under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure and Section 528 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita. Bail, anticipatory and regular, is argued at the sessions courts, the High Courts and the Supreme Court.
A criminal matter is prepared like a civil one: the record is read in full, the chronology is fixed, and each stage is planned with the next in view, so that what is said at the summons stage does not have to be unsaid at trial.
What the work includes
- PMLA: summons, attachment, Adjudicating Authority, Appellate Tribunal, bail and trial
- Benami property proceedings
- Quashing petitions under Section 482 CrPC and Section 528 BNSS
- Anticipatory and regular bail, at every level
- Fraud, cyber-fraud and the recovery of diverted funds
- Seizure and freezing of property under Section 102 CrPC and Section 106 BNSS