Prevention of Money-Laundering Act, 2002 · Chapter II: Offence of Money-Laundering
Section 4: Punishment for money-laundering
Whoever commits the offence of money-laundering shall be punishable with rigorous imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than three years but which may extend to seven years and shall also be liable to fine1 ***:
Provided that where the proceeds of crime involved in money-laundering relates to any offence specified under paragraph 2 of Part A of the Schedule, the provisions of this section shall have effect as if for the words "which may extend to seven years", the words "which may extend to ten years" had been substituted.
Source: India Code (indiacode.gov.in), the consolidated text published by the Legislative Department, Government of India. Text as updated on India Code on 14 October 2026. Words in square brackets [ ] were inserted or substituted by later amending Acts, and *** marks words omitted by an amendment. The amendment footnotes are not reproduced here. Official text on India Code.
Supreme Court judgments citing the section 4
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Pradeep Nirankarnath Sharma v. Directorate of Enforcement & Anr.
The High Court dismissed the appellant’s criminal revision application and refused to the quash the order of the Trial Court rejecting the appellant’s discharge application in a case for offences under the Prevention of…
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The Union of India Through the Assistant Director v. Kanhaiya Prasad
Issue arose as regards the correctness of the order passed by the High Court granting bail to the respondent without considering the rigours of s.45 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002.
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Directorate of Enforcement v. Subhash Sharma
Whether the High Court was justified in holding that the respondent's arrest was illegal and thus, granting him bail for an offence under Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002.
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Partha Chatterjee v. Directorate of Enforcement
Matter pertains to grant of bail to the appellant-former State Education Minister and MLA, in the ED case for his involvement in various investigations, owing to the racket of illegal appointment of teachers.
- Parvez Ahmed v. Directorate of Enforcement
- Mohd Ilyas v. Directorate of Enforcement
- Abdul Muqeet v. Directorate of Enforcement
- Tarun Kumar v. Assistant Director Directorate of Enforcement
- Siddharth Kumar v. Enforecement Directorate
- Sanjay Aggarwal v. Directorate of Enforcement
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Directorate of Enforcement v. Bibhu Prasad Acharya, etc.
The appellant filed complaints against the respondents and others u/s.44(1)(b) of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002. The Special Court took cognizance of the complaints and issued summons to the respondents…
- Sehegal Hossain v. Directorate of Enforcement & Anr
- Vaibhav Jain v. Directorata of Enforcementre
- Ankush Jain v. Directorate of Enforcement
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V. Senthil Balaji v. The Deputy Director, Directorate of Enforcement
Matter pertains to grant of bail to former Tamil Nadu transport minister against whom complaint was filed for offence u/s.3 PMLA, which is punishable u/s.4 PMLA for his alleged involvement in the job racket scam.
- Amandeep Singh Dhall v. Directorate of Enforcement
- Adnan Nisar v. Directorate of Enforcement
- Vishal Moral v. Directorate of Enforcement, Government of India Through Assistant Director & Anr
- Shivang Malkoti v. Directorate of Enforcement & Anr
- Arun Ramchandran Pillai v. Directorate Od Enforcement
- Sukanya Mondal v. Directorate of Enforcement
- Chanpreet Singh Rayat v. Enforcement Directorate
- Jagadish Nangineni v. Directorate of Enforcement & Ors. & Ors
- Gurupada Maji v. Enforcement Directorate
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Prem Prakash v. Union of India Through
When a person is in judicial custody/custody in another case investigated by the same Investigating Agency, whether the statements recorded (in the present case, the statements dated 03.08.2023, 04.08.2023, 11.08.2023)…
- Mohd Enamul Haque Through His Pairokar Abdul Hannan v. Directorate of Enforcement Through Assistant Director
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Parvinder Singh Khurana v. Directorate of Enforcement
The issue involved in these appeals concerns the power of the High Court or Sessions Court to grant an interim order of stay of operation of an order granting bail till the disposal of the application for cancellation…
- Anastasiia Pivtsaeva & Anr v. Union of India & Anr
- Kalvakuntla Kavitha v. Central Bureau of Investigation
- Zeeshan Haider v. Directorate of Enforcement
- Manish Sisodia v. Central Bueraeu of Investigation
- Manish Sisodia v. Directorate of Enforcement
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Tarsem Lal v. Directorate of Enforcement Jalandhar Zonal Office
(a) Whether the complaint filed u/s.44(1)(b) of Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 will be governed by sections 200 to 205 of the CrPC; (b) If the accused was not arrested by the ED till the filing of the…
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Prabir Purkayastha v. State (NCT of Delhi)
Whether the arrest and subsequent remand of the accused-appellant was vitiated as the copy of the remand application was not provided to him or his counsel before passing of the order of remand thus, not informing him…
- Sanjay Kansal v. Assistant Director, ED
- Directorate of Enforcement v. Akhilesh Singh
- Arvind Kejriwal v. Directorate of Enforcement
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Yash Tuteja & Anr. v. Union of India & Ors
The issue for consideration was a challenge to the Complaint filed by the Directorate of Enforcement under Section 44(1)(b) of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002, mainly on the ground that apart from s. 120B…
- Rajiv Channa v. Union of India
- Assistant Director, Directorate of Enforcement v. M/S Dynamic Shells Pvt. Ltd
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Satyendar Kumar Jain v. Directorate of Enforcement
Whether the appellants have been able to satisfy the twin conditions laid down in s. 45 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002, that there are reasonable grounds for believing that the persons accused of the…
- Sanjay Singh v. Directorate of Enforcement
- Dalip Jindal v. Directorate of Enforcement
- Sanjay Gupta v. Prabhakant Directorate of Enforcement Govt. of India
- Rajiv Channa v. Prabhakant , Directorate of Enforcement
- Raghuvinder Singh v. Prabhakant
- Rajiv Channa v. Dy.Director, Directorate of Enforcement
- Amit Aggarwal v. Directorate of Enforcement
- Nitin Garg v. Union of India & Anr
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Saumya Chaurasia v. Directorate of
Appellant aggrieved by the order of the High Court dismissing the bail application filed u/s.439 of Cr.P.C. has preferred this appeal. (i) Whether the appellant was prima facie found involved in the commission of the…
- Avtar Singh Kocchar @ Dolly v. Enforcement Directorate
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Tarun Kumar v. Assistant Director Directorate
Appellant was arrested on the fourth supplementary complaint filed u/ss.44, 45, Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002, in continuation of three complaints in the Complaint Case, for the commission of the offence of…
- Jai Prakash Singhal v. State of NCT of Delhi
- Jai Prakash Singhal v. Directorate of Enforcement
- Ashish Mittal v. Directorate of Enforcement & Anr
- Sameer Mahandru v. Directorate of Enforcement
- Mr. Guangwen Kuang @ Andrew v. Directorate of Enforcement & Anr
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Pankaj Bansal v. Union of India & Ors.
Whether the arrest of the appellants u/s. 19 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 was valid; whether there was proper compliance with s.19(1) of the Act of 2002 and as to whether the Vacation Judge/Additional…
- Preeti Chandra v. Directorate of Enforcement
- P. Sarath Chandra Reddy v. Directorate of Enforcement
- Anoop Bartaria & Etc. v. Dy. Director
- Sanjay Raghunath Agarwal v. The Directorate of
- Vaibhav Jain v. Directorate of Enforcement
- Ankush Jain v. Directorate of Enforcement
- Satyendar Kumar Jain v. Directorate of Enforcement
- Vikas Verma v. State Govt. of NCT of Delhi & Ors
- Kewal Krishan Kumar v. Enforcement Directorate
- Chitra Ramkrishna v. Assistant Director, Enforcement Directorate,
- Rana Ayyub v. Directorate of Enforcement
- Prakash Thermal Power Limited v. Union of India & Anr
- M/S Prakash Industries Limited v. Union of India and Anr
- Vijay Madanlal Choudhary & Ors. v. Union of India & Ors.
- J. Sekar @Sekar Reddy v. Directorate of Enforcement
- Opto Circuit India Ltd. v. Axis Bank & Ors.
- P. Chidambaram v. Directorate of Enforcement
- Rohit Tandon v. The Enforcement Directorate
- Gautam Kundu v. Manoj Kumar Assistant Director, Eastern Region, Directorate of Enforcement(Prevention of Money Laundering Act) Govt. of India
- Union of India v. Hassan Ali Khan and Anr.
- Binod Kumar v. State of Jharkhand and Ors.