Filed plea in SC to transfer Mufti's petition in PMLA case, HC told

New Delhi, October 27

The Centre on Wednesday informed the Delhi High Court that it had filed a plea before the Supreme Court seeking the transfer of PDP leader Mehbooba’s Mufti’s petition which challenges the Constitutional validity of a provision of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).

The counsel representing the Centre told a bench of Chief Justice DN Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh that the transfer petition was likely to come up for hearing before the apex court within a week — on October 29. The court listed the matter for further hearing on December 23.

The Centre had earlier told the court that several petitions concerning various provisions and scheme of PMLA were pending in the Supreme Court and the matter had been assigned to a special bench and parties had exchanged certain queries, one of which was directly in question here.

The Centre had said it intended to move a transfer petition so that the matters can be done together. — PTI