JUDGMENT

In all these cases, the petitioners are holders of accounts with different Banks and their accounts have been frozen on intimation by Police Authorities from different regions. The Court had at the time of admission, issued interim directions to restrict the freezing of the accounts to the amount which had been subject matter of the dispute as per the intimation received from the Police authorities. The Banks have also taken action to that extent pursuant to the directions issued by this Court. In similar cases, this Court had after issuance of such interlocutory orders, closed the writ petitions with certain directions. Paragraph No.12 of the directions issued in Dr.Sajeer v. Reserve Bank of India [ 2023 KHC OnLine 661] is extracted hereunder;

“12. In fact, should the criminal enquiry found otherwise, it will be doubtful if the amounts in question could be even recovered from the petitioners, if they have received it as part of bonafide or other valid transactions, unaware of it being proceeds of crime.

In the conspectus of the above, I order these Writ Petitions with the following directions:

a. The respondent Banks arrayed in these cases, are directed to confine the order