1. This petition is filed in the following background:

Respondent no. 2 herein is said to have filed a complaint as on 22.6.2016, before the Cyber Crime Police station, CID Division, Bangalore, which is said to have been registered as Crime No. 66/2016 and the FIR is said to have been filed before the Court of the Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Bangalore.

The said second respondent is said to have alleged in her complaint that she is a resident of Bangalore. And that a year prior to the complaint, she had come into contact with one Shri Harsha Ramesh, who is said to have introduced himself as a representative of a large international, multi-level marketing company known as Q-Net Limited. She is said to have been persuaded by the said Ramesh to join a commission based network, which she could manage from her residence. She was said to have been lured with the promise of large profits by investing nominal amounts of money. She was required to purchase certain life-style items through internet transactions, apart from involving two others into the business which would trigger a chain of transactions and that she would receive commission on all sales so generated and that occurred subsequently.

The complainant was said to have been told that the Q-Net business in India was being conducted by M/s Vihaan Direct Selling (India) Pvt. Ltd. under one Karthik. She was thus persuaded to transfer a sum of Rs. 2.55 lakh by way of online transfer to a particular account number, said to have been provided by the said Ramesh, and is said to have handed over a sum of Rs. 55,000/- in cash. Prior to this she had been called to a hotel to meet two women executives of the said company, who are said to have attempted to explain the business model to her, and that she had been immediately unsure of the genuineness of the business. However, she was said to have been persuaded to pay the above amounts and also further amounts after raising a bank loan.

The complainant is then said to have been invited to a conference where the business was sought to be explained in greater detail. But, she claimed that she was even more doubtful of the soundness of the business and is said to have demanded a refund of all her money. But she is again said to have been persuaded to attend a very grand conference at Dubai, which was said to have been attended by over 10,000 people, with many celebrities gracing the occasion.

After returning from Dubai, it transpires that no one from Q-Net contacted her. She is then said to have learnt from an internet search that Q-Net was part of another group known as Q-1 and that the aforesaid Vihaan Direct Selling (India) Pvt. Ltd. was being controlled by Q-1, which was said to be located in Hongkong. And the complainant stated that she had discovered that the Q-Net group had earlier conducted its business in India in the name of Gold Quest International Pvt. Ltd. & Quest Net Enterprises Ltd., and that serious legal action is said to have been initiated by the Indian Government on account of shady business practices having come to light.

It was further stated that the Bangalore operations of the business were being controlled by one Suresh Timri and Srinivas Vanka, who were said to be actively defrauding people of large sums of money, by involving them in the said business.

It was further said to have been stated that the Mumbai police were investigating the business of the very same group. It was further stated that the website of the Q-Net group had been deliberately blocked by the Indian Government to prevent further fraud by the said entity and its personnel.

She had thus said to have sought criminal action against the aforesaid persons and entities. The police have accordingly registered the case against several individuals for offences punishable under Section 66-D and 72-A of the Information Technology Act, 2000 (Hereinafter referred to as ‘the IT Act’ for brevity) and under Sections 406, 420, 419, 405, 417 and 416 of