The Supreme Court on Tuesday constituted a special bench to hear the petitions challenging its 2022 verdict, which upheld the constitutional validity of provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) relating to arrest, seizure, presumption of innocence and stringent bail conditions.
The special bench of Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Bela M. Trivedi will hear the revision petitions on October 18.
While hearing a case related to the Enforcement Directorate (ED), Justice Kaul revealed the composition of the special bench.
In August 2022, a bench led by the then CJI N.V. Ramana had issued notice on the review petition. The Bench had observed that two aspects of the judgment prima facie required reconsideration – one, the finding that the copy of the Enforcement Case Information Report (ECIR) need not be given to the accused; two, reversal of the presumption of innocence.
Earlier in May 2023, a two-judge bench had refused to refer the verdict in the Vijay Madanlal Choudhary case to a larger bench on the grounds that it was bound to follow it as it was rendered by a larger bench consisting of three judges.