K.N. Phaneendra, J.

1. The petitioner has approached this Court seeking Writ of Mandamus, directing the second respondent for seizure of passport along with all the equipment, data, computers, software programmes, compact discs (CDs.), drives, hardware and all forms of data storage and transfer in the possession of respondent No. 3 in connection with Crime No. 37/2014 on the file of Cyber Crime Police Station, Palace Road, Bangalore. It is an undisputed fact that petitioner has filed a complaint before the Cyber Crime Police Station, Sub-Division CID, CID Annexe Building, Carlton House, Palace Road, Bangalore on 23.9.2014 and the police have registered the said case in Crime No. 37/2014 for the offence punishable under Sections 43(j), 65, 66(B) of the Information Technology Act (hereinafter referred to as 'IT Act' for short) and started the investigation. It is contended that the investigating officer has not made any efforts for seizure of the articles which are very important so far as this case is concerned.

2. Though the petitioner has sought for a direction to the investigating officer, I feel that if the court: directs the investigating officer to conduct investigation in