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HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE FOR RAJASTHAN AT

JODHPUR

S.B. Civil Writ Petition No. 2368/2026

Pankaj S/o Lal Chand, Aged About 30 Years, R/o Gali No. 1,

Bhanbhu Colony, Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan.

----Petitioner

Versus

1. Bank Of Baroda, Through Its Branch Manager, 32-C Block,

Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan.

2. Station House Officer, Police Station Thuraipakkam,

District Adyar, Tamil Nadu.

3. Station House Officer, Cyber Crime Police Station,

Bhawani, Haryana.

----Respondents

For Petitioner(s) : Mr. Mudit Nagpal

Mr. Nishant Gaba

For Respondent(s) : --

HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SUNIL BENIWAL

Order

30/01/2026

1. The instant writ petition under Article 226 of the Constitution

of India has been filed by the petitioner seeking the following

reliefs:-

“It is, therefore, humbly and respectfully

prayed that this writ petition of the petitioner

may kindly be allowed and by an appropriate

writ, order or direction in the nature thereof

thereby:-

The impugned acknowledgments/notices

whereby the Petitioner's Bank Account No.

08150200002967 maintained with the

Respondent-Bank has been frozen may kindly

be quashed and set aside;

B. The Respondents my kindly be directed to

defreeze the Petitioner's aforesaid bank

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account and allow the Petitioner to operate the

same without any restriction or hindrance;

C. The action of the Respondents in freezing

the entire bank account of the Petitioner on

the basis of disputed transactions of merely

Rs. 5,500/ may kindly be declared illegal,

arbitrary, disproportionate, and violative of

Articles 14, 19(1)(g) and 21 of the

Constitution of India;

D. Any other appropriate writ, order or

direction which this Hon'ble Court may deem

just and proper in the facts and circumstances

of the case may also kindly be passed in

favour of the petitioner.”

2. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that a Co-ordinate

Bench of this Court while dealing with similar controversy has

passed order dated 25.11.2025 in S.B. Civil Writ Petition

No.22577/2025 (Sita Ram vs. Bank of Baroda and Ors.). He

prays that the present writ petition may also be disposed of in the

same terms as the said writ petition.

3. In view of the submissions made above, the present writ

petition is disposed of with a direction to the respondent-Bank to

keep the disputed amount (the amount which was transferred

illegally in the bank account of the petitioner) frozen and allow the

petitioner to make transactions from his bank account from the

remaining balance.

4. It is further made clear that in case, the respondent – Bank

has not received the information regarding the exact figure of the

disputed amount, which the Investigating Officer/Police alleges to

be receipt(s) of the offence, the bank shall send a communication

to the concerned Investigating Officer/Police, to indicate the

amount to be earmarked for lien, while endorsing a copy of the

instant order.

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5. Upon receipt of such communication/letter, the concerned

Investigating Officer/Police shall be under an obligation to apprise

the respondent - Bank about the amount to be kept in lien, within

a period of seven days of receiving the communication from the

respondent - Bank. The respondent – Bank shall thereafter do the

needful as directed herein above. It is further made clear that in

case, the respondent-Bank does not receive any reply from the

concerned Investigating Officer/Police within the stipulated period,

then it shall de-freeze the bank account of petitioner.

6. Stay petition as well as all pending applications, if any, stand

disposed of.

(SUNIL BENIWAL),J

258-AbhishekK/-

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