Guidelines Issued to Prevent Blanket Freezing of Bank Accounts in Cyber Crime Cases: Rajasthan High Court
The Rajasthan High Court has issued comprehensive safeguards against the indiscriminate freezing, debit-freezing and lien marking of bank accounts in cyber crime investigations. The Court stressed that investigating agencies must balance effective recovery of cyber-fraud money with the protection of innocent citizens, firms, companies and other legitimate account holders. 105 Petitions Considered Together Justice Anand Sharma was dealing with a batch of 105 petitions in which the petitioners challenged restrictions…
