New Delhi: Former Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna on Saturday said there is probably a need to treat unintentional financial offences differently from the premeditated ones that are driven by greed.

Addressing the TPF-Dayitva: National Legal Conference on Combating White-Collar Crime, organised by the Terapanth Professional Forum (TPF) at Bharat Mandapam, Former CJI Khanna said while ignorance of law cannot be a defence against committing a financial crime, “offences committed without malicious intent cannot be equated with offences that are motivated by greed and premeditated”.

Categorising financial offences in different categories, the Former CJI said that the most serious of the white collar crimes are the ones motivated by greed and include cases of fraud, embezzlement, insider

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