As courts continue to deal with money laundering cases, the link between PMLA proceedings and the predicate offence remains important. In an article published in Business Standard, our Partner Nikhil Varshney shares his thoughts on how the PMLA depends on the existence of a scheduled offence, and notes that continuing PMLA proceedings when the predicate offence fails may result in a waste of judicial resources, even though the law allows both cases to run in parallel. (Photo Credit: Business Standard)