HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD WRIT - C No. - 11798 of 2025 Court No. - 40 HON'BLE SARAL SRIVASTAVA, J. HON'BLE AMITABH KUMAR RAI, J. 1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the respondents. 2. The petitioner by means of the present writ petition has prayed for the following relief:- "A. Issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of mandamus commanding/directing the respondent no.2 & 3 i.e. Senior Superintendent of Posts, Allahabad Division Allahabad and Indian Post Payment Bank, Branch Karchhana, District Prayagraj to unlock her Post Office Bank Account no. 054510208232 in Indian Post Payment Bank, Branch Karchhana, District Prayagraj, so that the petitioner could be able to operate her aforesaid Post Office Bank Account. B. Issue any other suitable writ, order or direction in the nature, which this Hon'ble Court may deem fit and proper under the facts and circumstances of the case. C. Award the cost of the petition to the petitioner." 3. This Court in identical matter i.e. Writ-C No.1542 of 2025 has passed an order on 08.04.2025, which is reproduced herein-below:- "Heard learned counsel for the petitioner, Sri O.P. Gupta, learned counsel for the Union of India and Sri Amrish Agrawal, learned counsel for the respondent Bank. Petitioner is aggrieved by action of the respondent bank in Versus Counsel for Petitioner(s) : Pramod Kumar Srivastava Counsel for Respondent(s) : A.S.G.I., Amrish Sahai, C.S.C. Aneeta .....Petitioner(s) Union Of India And 4 Others .....Respondent(s) freezing his bank account. Learned counsel for the respondent bank has placed before the Court a notice issued to the Bank under Section 91 Cr.P.C. by the Government of Telangana, as per which unauthorized transactions have been undertaken from the petitioner's bank account, which is reported by the criminal investigation wing. A criminal investigation has also been instituted under Section 420 IPC and other provisions of IPC. Details of such communication has been handed over to the counsel for the petitioner. Once the involvement of petitioner's bank account has surfaced in the criminal proceedings, remedy of the petitioner would be to approach the competent forum for release of his bank account. A writ petition would not lie for such purposes, at the first instance. Writ petition, accordingly, is consigned to records." 4. Accordingly, the present writ petition is dismissed in terms of the order dated 08.04.2025 passed in Writ-C No.1542 of 2025. September 24, 2025 NS WRIC No. 11798 of 2025 2 (Amitabh Kumar Rai,J.) (Saral Srivastava,J.) Digitally signed by :- NITIN KUMAR High Court of Judicature at Allahabad