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HC rules against freezing of cyber fraud accounts
Financial Express Bengaluru
|November 22, 2025
IN A SIGNIFICANT ruling, the Bombay High Court has held that probe agencies can not ‘debit freeze’ a bank account allegedly involved in cyber fraud transactions under the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS).
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A probe agency can put the disputed amount on lien, but cannot freeze the entire account, said a bench of Justices Anil Pansare and Raj Wakode at Nagpur in a judgment passed on Thursday.
This story is from the November 22, 2025 edition of Financial Express Bengaluru.
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