Mere Non-Cooperation To ED Summons Not A Ground For Arrest Under PMLA; ED Can’t Expect Admission Of Guilt From Person Summoned: Supreme Court

Case: Pankaj Bansal v. Union of India

Coram: Justices AS Bopanna and PV Sanjay Kumar

Case No.: Criminal Appeal Nos 3051-3052 of 2023

Court Observation: “Mere non-cooperation of a witness in response to the summons issued under Section 50 of the Act of 2002 would not be enough to render him/her liable to be arrested under Section 19”

“In any event, it is not open to the ED to expect an admission of guilt from the person summoned for interrogation and assert that anything short of such admission would be an ‘evasive reply”.

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