JUDGMENT & ORDER (ORAL)

(Kaushik Goswami, J)

2] This intra-court appeal is directed against the interim order dated 13.01.2026 passed by the learned Single Judge in W.P.(Crl.) No. 9/2025, whereby operation of the order dated 03.03.2025 passed by the learned XI Metropolitan Magistrate, Saidapet, Chennai in Criminal Case No. 15/2025 came to be stayed.

3] The appellant, who was respondent No. 5 in the writ proceedings, is aggrieved by the said interim order and contends that the writ petition itself was constitutionally incompetent, the challenge therein being directed against a judicial order passed by a criminal court situated outside the territorial jurisdiction of this Court.

4] The facts giving rise to the present proceedings, shorn of unnecessary detail, are as follows: The appellant claims to be a victim of an online financial fraud of considerable magnitude. According to the appellant, he was induced through certain online platforms and WhatsApp groups purporting to be associated with investment and stock trading activities, pursuant whereto various sums aggregating to approximately Rs.5.34 crores were transferred to multiple bank accounts on the representation that such trans