Page 1 of 3. IN THE HIGH COURT OF ORISSA AT CUTTACK W.P.(C) No.36560 of 2025 Niranjan Sahoo ..... Petitioner(s) Mr. Manmeet Singh Arora, Advocate -versus- State Bank of India (SBI), Sambalpur Branch …. Opposite Party(s) Mr. Gurudutta Kar, Advocate CORAM: THE HON'BLE DR. JUSTICE SANJEEB K PANIGRAHI ORDER 23.12.2025 Order No. 01. 1. This matter is taken up through hybrid arrangement. 2. Heard. 3. The Petitioner, by fling this Writ Petition, has sought for a direction from this Court to the Opposite Party/ Bank to take steps to defreeze the bank account and provide operation to enable the Petitioner to utilize funds and carry out transaction. Digitally Signed Signed by: GITANJALI NAYAK Reason: Authentication Location: OHC Date: 24-Dec-2025 18:29:18 Signature Not Verified Page 2 of 3. 4. Learned counsel for the Petitioner submits that on 24th September, 2025 an amount of Rs. 1200/- was credited in the account of the petitioner from some unknown source which could not be acknowledged by the petitioner. Further on 25th November, 2025 the Bank blocked the account and a text message was sent to the registered number of the petitioner, restricting the livelihood of the petitioner without any fault. The petitioner approached the bank. The bank intimated that the bank account has been frozen in relation to the cyber complaint filed by one Jaiminbhai Patel at Gandhinagar Cyber Police Station (as intimated by the Local Cyber Police Station). Further an acknowledgement number bearing no. 31111250232025 was given without any further details regarding the same along with the information regarding the suspicious transaction dated 24.09.2025 and no other relevant documents in support of the blocking of the account were supplied. 5. In such view of the matter and the submission made by the learned counsel for the Petitioner, the Opposite Party /Bank is directed to defreeze the aforesaid account of the Petitioner by holding Rs.1200/- (Rupees One Thousand Digitally Signed Signed by: GITANJALI NAYAK Reason: Authentication Location: OHC Date: 24-Dec-2025 18:29:18 Signature Not Verified Page 3 of 3. Two Hundred Only) and allow the Petitioner to transact his account frequently. 6. Accordingly, the Writ Petition is disposed of. (Dr. Sanjeeb K Panigrahi) Judge Gitanjali