# Supreme Court reconstitutes bench for PMLA verdict review 2026-08-22T13:17:20+00:00 | Governance | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 2 independent outlets The Supreme Court has reconstituted the bench to hear pending review petitions against its landmark 2022 verdict on the Prevention of Money Laundering Act. A new three-judge bench led by Chief Justice Surya Kant, with Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V. Mohana, will take up the matter. Indiatvnews.com and Indiatoday.in both report that the earlier bench, which included Justice Ujjal Bhuyan and Justice N. Kotiswar Singh, was changed after the CJI noted that continuing with it would require reconstituting three existing benches. All parties consented to the new bench. The review petitions challenge two key aspects of the July 27, 2022 judgment. The first is whether an Enforcement Case Information Report (ECIR) must be supplied to the accused. The second is Section 24 of the PMLA, which places the burden of proof on the accused. The court has confined the review to these limited questions. ## Indian Opinion Analysis Both sources report the bench reconstitution with matching detail, showing no discernible slant. Indiatoday.in adds procedural context, noting the CJI's reason for the change and the two specific legal questions under review. Indiatvnews.com is briefer but consistent. The coverage is uniform straight reporting. For careful readers, the real story is the narrow scope of the review: the court will not revisit the entire 2022 judgment, only the ECIR-sharing and burden-of-proof issues, meaning the ED's core powers remain untouched unless the review succeeds. The next hearing date will be the concrete thing to watch. ## Coverage Coverage: 2 sources, 2 neutral - indiatvnews.com (neutral report) Wire-style report with no framing slant, just the fact of reconstitution. - indiatoday.in (neutral report) Detailed neutral report, adds procedural and legal context without bias. This story was synthesised by AI from the 2 sources linked above. Tags: ECIR, Enforcement Directorate, PMLA, Supreme Court, Surya Kant Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/supreme-court-reconstitutes-bench-for-pmla-verdict-review/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/supreme-court-reconstitutes-bench-for-pmla-verdict-review/#story-in-brief How this brief was made: an AI model read the reports linked above and wrote this summary and analysis, which were published automatically. Published briefs are sampled every hour by an automated quality check; the editor verifies its findings and approves corrections, and corrected briefs carry a dated correction line. Stance labels are editorial classifications of how each outlet framed this story, assigned by the same model, not ratings of the outlets. We do no original reporting. Methodology: https://indianopinion.org/ai-use-policy/