HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD WRIT - C No. - 17329 of 2025 Court No. - 40 HON'BLE SARAL SRIVASTAVA, J. HON'BLE SUDHANSHU CHAUHAN, J. 1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.C.S.C. for the State-respondents. 2. The petitioner by means of present writ petition has prayed for following relief:- "(i) Issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of mandamus directing the respondent bank to unfreezed the HDFC Bank Account No. 50200020569030 of petitioner as petitioner is ready to return the total money Rs. 90,000/- to the HDFC Bank. (ii) Issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of mandamus directing the respondents not to harass the petitioner. (iii) Issue any other suitable writ, order or direction in which this Hon'ble Court may deem fit and proper under the facts and circumstances of the case. (iv) Award the cost of the writ petition in favour of 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 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 Versus Counsel for Petitioner(s) : Ghazanfar Abbas, Pradeep Kumar Counsel for Respondent(s) : C.S.C. Arun Kumar .....Petitioner(s) State Of U.P. And 2 Others .....Respondent(s) 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 also dismissed in terms of the order dated 08.04.2025 passed in Writ-C No.1542 of 2025. October 6, 2025 Anjali WRIC No. 17329 of 2025 2 (Sudhanshu Chauhan,J.) (Saral Srivastava,J.) Digitally signed by :- ANJALI SHARMA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad