HC: Freezing of bank a/cs would affect right to life
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Bengaluru:10.09.2021
Freezing of bank accounts would affect the right to life under Article 21 of the Constitution, the high court has observed.
Justice Mohammed Nawaz made this observation while allowing a petition filed by Narayana Yadav, a New Delhi-based businessman, and directed the CEN police station at Yadgir to intimate the banks to defreeze his accounts. The defreezing is subject to the petitioner-businessman abiding by his commitment to give a bank guarantee for a sum of ₹3.7 lakh, the court said.
Yadav had challenged the June 22, 2020 notice issued by police, directing the manager of Axis Bank to freeze his account and linked account numbers, four in all.
The action was based on a complaint from Ludra Mary, a resident of Shahpur in Yadgir, who alleged that she received a mail on May 27, 2020 stating that she had won ₹48.5 lakh lottery. To get hold of the same, she had to log in to a certain website. Accordingly, she entered the password and the user name provided and filled up the information requested. In response, she was asked to deposit a certain amount to the account numbers provided. Until June 10, 2020, a total of ₹3.7 lakh was deposited in those accounts, but thereafter Ludra did not get the promised money.
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