ORDER

The petitioner is before this Court seeking a direction by issuance of a writ in the nature of mandamus to defreez the accounts that have been debit frozen by the act of the respondent-Union Bank of India.

2. Heard Sri Mohammed Tahir, learned counsel appearing for the petitioner and Sri K.B.Monesh Kumar, learned counsel appearing for the respondents.

3. Brief facts, that leads the petitioner to this Court in the subject petition, as borne out from the pleadings, are as are as follows:

The petitioner availed a loan from Union Bank of India on

17.02.2018 for an amount of Rs.15 lakhs. When the loan became sticky, the respondent-Bank passed an order on 27.12.2022, freezing all the four accounts of the petitioner. The petitioner gave a representation on 01.02.2023 requesting defreezing of the accounts, to which it was replied by the respondent-Bank contending that the accounts of the petitioner have been declared to be a fraud. Aggrieved by the said action of freezement of accounts, the petitioner is before this Court in the subject petition.

4. Sri Mohammed Tahir, learned counsel appearing for the petitioner would submit that the petitioner’s accounts were never declared to be a fraud