The Legislature on its half has undertaken vital measures together with enacting new statutes and considerably amending (typically continuously) current statutes. This has additional resulted in a scenario the place sure provisions corresponding to these within the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 are amended nearly on a yearly foundation by way of Finance Acts.

The e-book ‘White- Collar Crimes in India: Contemporary Issues and Complexities,’ authored by attorneys Susanah Naushad and Mohammed Raiz, and revealed by Thomson Reuters, seeks to make clear these and myriad different points.

The e-book gives helpful insights into areas of white-collar crime legislation. As Senior Advocate Sidharth Luthra has written within the foreword to the e-book,

“This well-researched book comes at a vital time as there is an increase in criminal litigation, which might be the result of the downturn in the Indian economy on account of the Covid- 19 pandemic. This book covers largely untouched areas, such as the origin of white- collar crime, its interface with the IPC and other special laws such as the stat­utes for corruption, money laundering, companies law and so on.”