The Delhi High Court has granted regular bail to an accused in an Enforcement Directorate money-laundering case linked to alleged terror funding, holding that nearly four years of pre-trial detention, with the trial far from conclusion and no delay attributable to him, outweighs the stringent bail bar under Section 45 of the PMLA. The twin conditions of Section 45, though mandatory, must yield to the constitutional right to a speedy trial, the Court held.
