JUDGMENT :

S.K. PANIGRAHI, J.

1. The petitioner in this Criminal Misc. Case preferred under Section 482 of the Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 has challenged the Notice No. 1373 dated 12.05.2020 issued by the Opposite Party No. 2 in connection with Cyber Crime P.S. Case No. 0028 of 2017 corresponding to G.R. Case No. 1731/2017, wherein the petitioner was directed under Section 91 of the Cr.P.C. to appear in person along with three seized Laptops on 12.06.2020 and with a further direction to produce those seized laptops, as they were, without any tampering. Resultantly, it is prayed by petitioner that the said impugned notice under Annexure-3 dated 12.5.2020 may be quashed and set aside.

2. The factual matrix of the case in hand is that one Madhusudan Padhy, IAS, Transport Commissioner, Odisha lodged a written report on 11.09.2017 before the I.G. Crime Branch, C.I.D. with a request to investigate into a possible “hacking” of his e-mail I.D mspadhi@gmail.com by an unknown miscreant. Accordingly, on the basis of his report, Cyber Crime P.S. Case No. 28 dated 13.09.2017 was registered under Sections 465, 469 of the IPC read with Section 66 of the Information Technology Act, 2000 against an