India, Feb. 21 -- Ancestral property is not immune from attachment in proceedings under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), the Delhi High Court has held.

A bench of Justices Navin Chawla and Ravinder Dudeja observed that the law has no exception carved out for ancestral or inherited properties in matters of attachment in money laundering proceedings.

The court passed the verdict on an appeal by a man against a 2025 order of the appellate tribunal under the PMLA, which upheld the confirmation of provisional attachment of his property in Sainik Vihar by the Enforcement Directorate.

The appellant said the property was never purchased by him and was bought by his father out of his own income in 1991 in their joint name, and the...