India, May 24 -- A special PMLA court has refused to drop the money laundering case against alleged drug trafficker Ali Asgar Shirazi , ruling that the proceedings can continue despite his discharge from the predicate offences, as appeals against those orders are pending before the Bombay High Court.

Special judge RB Rote said the scheduled offences still exist as the FIRs registered by Mumbai police have not been quashed. The court also noted that both the Mumbai police crime branch and the ED have challenged Shirazi's discharge in the predicate offences before the high court.

"There is no acquittal of all the accused in the predicate offence. There is no discharge of all the accused in the predicate offence. The proceeding of predicat...