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"We have to see if this is an appeal in disguise..", the bench had observed earlier when these petitions were taken up first
Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal today mentioned the issue of listing the review petition filed by Karti Chidambaram against the judgment upholding the constitutional validity of Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) before a Justice Surya Kant led bench.
Court has agreed to list the petitions on September 18. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta was also present before Court when the mentioning was made by Sibal.
When the petitions were listed earlier last month, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta had sought time from court submitting, "This has come up suddenly, we need some time to prepare..please have this at a later date..".
Agreeing to the submissions, Justice Kant had listed the petitions on August 28.
In August 2022, Supreme Court had issued notice in the review petition on limited purview.
A bench of the then Chief Justice of India NV Ramana, retired Justice Dinesh Maheshwari and Justice CT Ravikumar had issued notice on the limited aspects, which includes:
Court had earlier allowed an open court hearing in the review petition.
A Justice AM Khanwilkar led bench of the top court on July 27, 2022 upheld the constitutional validity of various provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002. The bench, also consisting of Justices Dinesh Maheshwari and CT Ravikumar however had held that the challenge to the passage of amendments to the Act in 2019 as a money bill will be considered by a larger bench.
Over 200 petitions were filed challenging the provisions of the Act. It was argued before the court that the powers of the Enforcement Directorate to arrest, force confessions, and seize property were unbridled.
In its 545-page judgment, the Court answered 12 questions of law formulated in the batch of petitions. A comprehensive look at the same can be found here.
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