Bombay HC Quashes Account Freeze Because Police Lack Power Under BNSS Section 106

Kartik Yogeshwar Chatur Vs Union of India & Ors. (Bombay High Court) In Kartik Yogeshwar Chatur Vs Union of India & Ors., the Bombay High Court considered a common question across several petitions: whether an investigating agency has the power to debit freeze a bank account under Section 106 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS). The petitioners’ accounts had been debit frozen on the ground that cyber fraud had occurred and part of the alleged fraudulent amount had been credited to their accounts. During the hearing, the Court noted that in some cases the investigat...